New vid!
I made this a while ago, but just decided to post it. Nobody's seen this movie anyway.
Orayta (0 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: הסודות | The Secrets - 2007
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michelle/Naomi
Characters: נעמי | Naomi (הסודות), מישל | Michelle (הסודות)
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
בֶּן בַּג בַּג אוֹמֵר, הֲפֹךְ בָּהּ וַהֲפֹךְ בָּהּ, דְּכֹלָּא בָהּ
Edited to add some commentary
HaSodot, or "The Secrets", is an Avi Nesher film from 2007 about post-high school girls learning at a seminary in Safed, Israel. There is a range of Jewish backgrounds at the seminary; It seems intended as a place for students who would not fare as well as the more traditional seminaries. Two of the girls fall in love, Naomi from a more traditional background and Michelle from a more secular background. Michelle also falls in love with a male clarinet player and ultimately marries him. The complicated love triangle is one of the central elements of the film, and I think it is generally well told. But it's not what the film is about.
The film is at its heart about Kabbalah. Naomi arrogantly thrusts herself into the deepest secrets of the Torah as only a nineteen year old genius can, with both joyful and heartbreaking results. Michelle, devastatingly in love with Naomi, follows her down its torturous paths. Both struggle, together and apart, to cope with the consequences.
I love HaSodot because it takes Kabbalah and Torah more seriously than it takes anything else, and it takes seriously the idea that since Torah is everything, women have a place at the center of it. I wanted to craft a vid that communicated that. Victoria Hanna's song "Orayta", which assuredly bills itself as the world's first Judeo-Aramaic rap song, uses language from the Zohar in praise of the hidden beauty and power of the Torah. These two weird things- a rap song about Kabbalah and an indie movie about Kabbalah- blend with startling force.
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Orayta (0 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: הסודות | The Secrets - 2007
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michelle/Naomi
Characters: נעמי | Naomi (הסודות), מישל | Michelle (הסודות)
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
בֶּן בַּג בַּג אוֹמֵר, הֲפֹךְ בָּהּ וַהֲפֹךְ בָּהּ, דְּכֹלָּא בָהּ
Click to viewEdited to add some commentary
HaSodot, or "The Secrets", is an Avi Nesher film from 2007 about post-high school girls learning at a seminary in Safed, Israel. There is a range of Jewish backgrounds at the seminary; It seems intended as a place for students who would not fare as well as the more traditional seminaries. Two of the girls fall in love, Naomi from a more traditional background and Michelle from a more secular background. Michelle also falls in love with a male clarinet player and ultimately marries him. The complicated love triangle is one of the central elements of the film, and I think it is generally well told. But it's not what the film is about.
The film is at its heart about Kabbalah. Naomi arrogantly thrusts herself into the deepest secrets of the Torah as only a nineteen year old genius can, with both joyful and heartbreaking results. Michelle, devastatingly in love with Naomi, follows her down its torturous paths. Both struggle, together and apart, to cope with the consequences.
I love HaSodot because it takes Kabbalah and Torah more seriously than it takes anything else, and it takes seriously the idea that since Torah is everything, women have a place at the center of it. I wanted to craft a vid that communicated that. Victoria Hanna's song "Orayta", which assuredly bills itself as the world's first Judeo-Aramaic rap song, uses language from the Zohar in praise of the hidden beauty and power of the Torah. These two weird things- a rap song about Kabbalah and an indie movie about Kabbalah- blend with startling force.
This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/338161.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.