Black Woman Reveals Why She Joined Hasidic Jewish Sect
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Sara Braun is in the unusual situation of being both black and ultra orthodox Jewish. How did this come about? Who in her family was Jewish? And how does she fit her extravagant, curious and outlandish personality with the insular, secretive and traditional sect?
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Frieda's words: In this long-form conversation, I talk to Sara about her life journey, from secular Holland to NYC, where she became deeply involved in religious life. She was drawn to the insular Hasidic sects like Satmar, became close friends with families in Kiryas Joel, and her wedding was attended by, among others dignitaries, the Satmar Grand Rabbi's wife Sosha Teitelbaum. Sara was extremely forthcoming in sharing what drew her to the community, the challenges and joys, and how her family reacted to her journey.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:00 How Sara is Jewish
15:00 Would you like to hug a man hello
18:00 What Sara's Husband Said About Her Wig (Sheitel)
21:00 Kanye West: Black vs Jewish
25:00 What it's like being black in Hasidic Jewish community
28:00 Sara's view on the strict rules
31:00 Competing for MODESTY!
35:00 Sara's matchmaking experiences
40:00 Submissive Women & Hasidic Weddings
43:00 Problems with the community
45:00 Is gay ok? Controversial
47:00 Unexpected views on Israel
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Have you been watching my recent videos about Hasidism? Hope you enjoy this one!
Hi Andrew. Enjoyed this. Been watching quite a few of these podcasts on cults etc. Find it interesting about how people manage to escape them.
Ahh eastern europeans aren't the only jews that exist moron, ever heard
of ethiopian jews? arab jews? moroccan jews? What is usual is your racist
small minded limited perspective of life outside of the fart bubble you live in.
My first one so far, been busy, but will this weekend!!!! You ALWAYS find a topic which interests me very much. Hugs from an Edge Hog fan from Norway 🦔🦔❣!!
If you truly are curious about the concept of hair covering in Judaism theres a wonderful small lecture series that you can get online. Its called A Canopy of Bracha; Why Jewish Women Cover Their Hair. It is given by a very well respected NON Chasidic rabbi named R Avraham Chaim Feuer. There might be some Hebrew references but i think he explains or translates most or all of them and he happens to be very quick humored as well.
Das Interview war, wie so viele andere, einfach grossartig👍
As you're so fluent in German, she probably could have explained several things to you in Dutch as well (in those very few moments she wasn't sure to use the right words) I'm sure you would have understood that as well.
Being German, it was so very nice to watch it - for so many, many important (multi-)cultural and historical aspects, I loved it, thank you so much!!
Viele Grüße an die grossartige Sara & ein schönes Wochenende,
Claudia
As a South African of Indian indentured communities I was brought up in the apartheid system, I being dark skinned was even discriminated by my own family and my community! I got very political and started to hang out with anyone who was friendly, African, Irishman, even Afrikaners and the Jewish community for the most part who was against the apartheid system,it was a mind blowing experience,now I look at people individually and respected their position and became a Born again Animist. Respect to me is Truly a key to Freedom.
Sara is a beautiful representation of the Jewish people. Great interview! ❤
Great interview. I am black and a Christian. I really appreciate your story and journey. I found it really enlightening, we should each try to learn more about each other, religious and non religious.
Lovely refreshing conversation. Sara is embracing her life head on, and has such an interesting story.
What’s the issue with all the criticism. Her grandmother was Jewish, she wasn’t raised to be observant and now she practices her faith in Hasidim Judaism.
Thanks to you and Sara for such a fascinating discussion. I feel calling your videos interviews diminishes them because they truly are more like a conversation where we get to learn a little about the different ways we express our humanity, rather than something with a set list of questions to get through. Learning about other beliefs and cultures I believe teaches tolerance and an understanding that there are many ways of living a good life not just the one our own upbringing has taught us.
Aw thanks Mary!
@@AndrewGold1 This what people have to do to survive in America. Claim anything except black
Yes, I definitely like the face to face interviews! I like the way that you connected with Sara on certain levels. Mainly, the way that you are both willing to accept change. 🥰
Just great
I was captivated from the start of the conversation between Sara and Andrew. What a beautiful place to nestle in when you seek what fulfills your mind, body, heart and soul and feel you are either on the right track or have arrived 💕
Same here oh my God I love it
Amazing interview. Sara Braun is a treasure and I’m grateful to her for sharing her experience 🙏🏼
I am so disappointed to hear that most of the criticism has come from other black people, especially as a black person myself. I just dont why people cant just allow someone to live their life and be happy that they are living it in the way that gives them most fulfilment.
Thank you so much for your comment. I am a born Jew of color. The most hateful reactions I have received are from black people. I was slapped so hard in my left ear by a classmate who said to me, "You don't believe in him?" I knew she was referring to JC since that is pretty much all she talked about. I plainly responded, "No" and I was hit so hard that I fell back.
Just a couple of weeks ago I let go a non-Jewish black woman who could not stop resisting throwing shady comments at Jews. I told her to stop. She did not. I just ghosted her after she went beserk texting me. Her true anger came to surface.
My message to black folks is that we are all not the same. I have met other Jews of color who experienced the same hostility as I. I am not saying that all black folks are anti-semetic. I feel there is deep trauma within the community that needs internal healing. My opinion is that anyone who sticks their neck out for any reason in the black community is given grief.
I you read the talamund and you knew how they view you you'd be critiquing this also.
It always appears to me that it's black people who are most obsessed with skin colour - something which is less than 1mm thick, when it's the least interesting part of a person. I love listening to interviews with interesting people and couldn't care less what colour they are.
@@chrystalblue7170 What is the Talamund?
Have you read "The Talamund"? I'm Jewish and I have never heard of this.
Revelation Chapter 2 verse 9 and Revelation Chapter 3 verse 9. A foolish man can't see the truth when he is unlearned. Educate yourself with the truth and get filled with the Holy Spirit for divine discernment. Stop complaining about what other Black people are doing and saying. Some of us are at a different Spiritual level than others. For mysake stop decreasing my perception of you people whom I credited as having a high degree of intelligence. Soon I will be distraught with the thought that there is no hope of mankind ever being saved from themselves.
My husband was a driver for Shlomo Carlbach. Once a big black truck driver with swinging peyot and a kippa stopped on the road and ran toward the car. Shlomo got out and they embraced. Shlomo explained later he had been mugged by this young man some years back. Shlomo had no money on him so he asked the mugger to let him go and he would bring 100$ to that place on the morrow. Shlomo did. That made such an impression on this big strapping guy, who had come from who-knows-what brokenness, that he started following Carlbach and eventually made orthodox conversion.
Wow, amazing story!
Sara seems like a wonderful person, very strong and confident. It's really pleasure listening to your discussion with her.
I was fascinated by this interview. As a Black woman, I applaud her for finding and embracing what felt right to her, regardless of what others thought about it. But I note, that based on much of what I have seen, she may not have felt the pressure to fully conform because she was not doing things to please her family, but rather to please herself. The stories I have heard about abuse, and the feeling of helplessness that those who are born into the community suffer when they try to get out, or try to break with convention, create a very different picture. My sense of it is that this woman is strong , independent, confident and self-assured, precisely because she was not raised in that community. She speaks of reigning back and controlling an energy, passion, talent, form of expression to meet the demands of her faith. It is a very different thing to not have those characteristics because your religion stopped you from developing them in the first place. I don't personally know enough Hassidic women to be an expert, but I doubt many are trained to sing opera and choose to hold it back. This woman still has the gift and joy of music within her. That strikes me as very different. I sense that she derives joy from BOTH her Black and Jewish traditions, and that exudes from her. I wish her and her family well.
Agree!!!
i grew up in hasidic sect and i completely agree with your insightful comment@@laurabernard2094
The duration and with it the spread nature of Jewish Diaspora created distinct homogeneous looking communities. When all of us are United in Israel, our diversity becomes the natural state of being. In Israel, it’s not unusual, but the commonplace to have green Jews, Yellow Jews, Pink Jews and every colour of brown created by our generous creative G-d. Those who point to our diverse visual, as reasoning against our Right to identify as a Nation, represent those who caused it to us by persecuting us, raping us, expelling us; the hate it that the adversity they caused to us had such a beautiful outcome, this microcosm of G-ds imagination and creativity.
Loved this interview! Thank you for the different perspectives in your Hasidic series. Well done, Andrew!👏🏻👏🏻
I am Dutch and I loved finding out Sara is too! love her story
Me too!😊🇸🇷🇳🇱
Ik ook
I enjoyed this immensely. Sara cannot be compared to the children growing up in this community and don't know how to say no to an arranged marriage. She is a remarkable woman who knows how to think and reason. Most 18 year olds probably feel compelled to go along with the arranged marriages.
Great interview Andrew! Thanks for hosting such a lovely guest, she has a very interesting story. 🙏
Andrew, I am so grateful for this interview and that you are showing different sides and flavours of our beautiful and yet sometimes heavy heritage. ❤
What a great interview this was with Sarah who is such an intelligent, interesting lady! I like how you have opened my eyes and mind to other religions or topics I don’t know much about, was interested in finding more out about, or thought I knew about but not enough!
Andrew, I love your questions and the fact that you are so respectful of your guests. Sara, you are awesome !
Loving the crisp, clean audio and set up. You've come leaps and bounds - proud to watch 😊🎉
I'm an African American woman who believes there is a God but I'm not very religious. Sara seems like a lovely, kind person and interesting person. She would be a wonderful teacher. I guess in a way she is an educator. I'll definitely buy her book. Great interview Andrew!
I recently learned that if you are more pigment-ly blessed and born in America, you're actually not "African American", I have heard it say you're American American and then you might indicate your skin color. I am 2.5% Yoruban, almost 1/4 Jewish, with dash of English, German, Italian and French. But still since I was born in America, I'm just an American.
@@christinmari You do realize Jewish , German, Italian, Yorba, European or American are not racial identities. Those are national origin and you can only one national origin. Which is where your ancient original came from. So, what the hell these people teach you in school these. Apparently nothing we have a bunch brainless misfits walking talking crazy. STOP IT! Educate yourself. There three basic racial identity that we fit into and a few subracial identities. You are either a Cacusiods, Negriod or Mongoliod.
As a non-American I wonder what are the continental labels good for then? Why African Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans if all could be just American.
@aronsium4714 it's worse than that. I only know 2 African Americans, me and Elon Musk. They are just black. There's no evidence they are from Americans but here. I mean Egyptians are African, but I guess they don't count.
@@christinmariyes. In South Africa, although we have many races, people are not called or say, " I'm an Indian South African or a Khoisan South African" I think only the US does all this labelling. We do have to state our race for whatever statiscal purpose but you know sometimes people are a mixture of 3 or more races having a long history of inter-racial relationships and can't be classified as anything except human, I guess.
What a beautiful interview 💕
Great interview! Dropped the mic 🎤 ❤️👏🏾
I really love her perspective on everything.. Finally someone tells it how it is without color being an issue, I love it Andrew it's not about color but about choices one makes. 😇
Choices? Her GRANDMA WAS JEWISH
OUR SOCIETY MAKES IT ABOUT COLOR, JUST LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. NOW THOSE OF US WHO KNOW GOD WE KNOW HIS KINGDOM THAT WILL COME WHEN MESSIAH WILL RULE WILL INCLUDE EVERY NATION RACE KINDRED AND TONGUE.
That was so good.!...What a lovely, warm. hearted lady!,... learn't so much...Even you Andrew ,,you looked so relaxed and comfortable with great questions.....Love it!
This was so interesting- I love learning about how other people live, how they’re different from me and also the same. Thanks Andrew and Sara ❤️
Sara seems like such a lovely woman. I love how she casually throws in Yiddish slang. The Hasidic community (Chabad-Lubavitch) I am from does not allow women to shave their heads, due to how dehumanizing it is. Married women just wear the sheitel. Everyone assumes my hair is a wig, because of how beautiful it is. There are quite a few Black Jewish families where I live, and they are all wonderful people.
It seems odd that hair is something highlighted about your faith as it's not the only religion where hair is part of faith. I took some classes with and talked to a deeply faithful Muslim woman about it because she didnt wear a hijab or any other covering. Her parents asked for her to not wear it because that would draw more attention to her than wearing it. That stuck with me. We live in Copenhagen, Denmark and and now it's normal but when we took classes together most didn't wear headscarfs. How do you think about their perspective?
@@charisma-hornum-fries There are reasons for wearing it and also declining to wear it in both Judaism and Islam. It depends on how the woman or family understands the reason for the rule. In the Chasidic community, covering hair (for married women) is very important - it has to do with mystical interpretations of Jewish law and (for some groups) about ritual purity laws. For those communities, it's not a matter of drawing or not drawing attention. There are different kinds of wigs and scarves and they each indicate something about the specific Chasidic sect and the family's level of religious observance. In this interview, she is saying that even though she learned about Chasidic life through the Satmar and other Yiddish-speaking communities in New York, she chooses to cover her hair differently than the norm in those communities.
Baruch HaShem
The Dutch pronunciation helps in terms of Jewish slang. When she says "Chasidic" the "Cha" sound like hissing which the Dutch and Jewish pronunciation have in common. We have the hissing sound in the German pronunciation too but not like the Dutch. 😂✌🏾Peace y'all
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313She spoke purely Dutch, nothing Jiddisch about "echt" or "verstijfd", just Dutch 😅
Enjoying this episode 🎉
Love your channel, Andrew. So many compelling conversations. Please keep up the great work. You are such a great communicator. 🙏
I would be completely on board with Ms. Braun doing a regular podcast. Perhaps she and Frieda Viezel could have a bi- monthly podcast discussing current events and cultural shifts, etc. Ms. Braun brings so many unique perspectives, in one package. I have now watched three interviews with Ms. Braun and I want to hear more about her. I am already searching for her book, in digital form.
Hey Andrew,
It's good to hear a positive side. You are so good at empathising with the people you interview, regardless of their perspective. I like how you don't bring judgement into it, no matter the content, no matter their experiences. Just empathy and understanding.
I discovered this channel only recently and thought the same. I am getting very similar vibes here as from Peter Santenello's travel channel. I think for the topics that both channels have treated (I don't know how much overlap there is, but it includes the Hasidim of New York), they complement each other perfectly.
@@johaquilaI agree! I’m so glad I learned from Peter’s channel about Shloime Zionce, Titus Morris & very many other unique people, understanding different cultures, etc. I love how in depth this interview is going! 💙🙏🏽💙🖖🏼🇮🇱💪🏽
Fascinating story . Thanks for sharing Sara 😃
Great interview Andrew! Thanks for hosting such a lovely guest, she has a very interesting story. 🙏
Edit: I'll check out your other videos about Hasidism.
Great interview, Andrew. You were impressive.
Omg what an amazing interview!!!
thanks laya!
Interesting fun interview such a lovely guest
Lovely and brave. And speaking Yiddish to babies? Hearing Yiddish made me think of my grandma and tear up because I miss her so she's right about that also.
Sara thank you so much for sharing your story! Fascinating and so interesting. I’m a Christian from the US but I’ve been interested in other religions especially Judaism. I think there are many wonderful things to be learned and incorporated into our own lives. Thanks again for sharing.
I have read her book, and it's great. I am sorry that others black are saying bad things. I am not one of them
1 day I would love to meet her. 💕
Fascinating interview. What a delightful woman🇦🇺🦘
Lovely interview, thanks.
I really enjoyed this interview. She is very kind and understanding to your questions. I really appreciate your openness and respect towards each other. I wish we could all treat each other this way. Thank you and Much ❤ to you both from Nashville TN USA 🇺🇸
Oh my Gosh, Sarah is so confident and beautiful and very well spoken! I can't stop listening to her! I wish I could see more of her endeavours and whatever she is interested in now
Was she not supposed to be well spoken? I’m confused?
Terrific interview with a remarkable guest. Thanks to you both!
Thank you very much for starting to explore the other side of the story. .that is amazing.I was one of the critics, and you were quite upset with me...
Love! Love! Love your content to your videos.
What a beautiful light she is! She is her own person.
I am ordering this book. I feel frustrated that I have to wait for it's delivery out of America. I want to read it so bad. I enjoyed this interview so much. Andrew you are such a personable interviewer. I got a kick out of hearing Dutch, Yiddish and German words spoken.
What a wonderful interview❣️Thank you so much for this. You now have a new subscriber 😊!
Another brilliant interview, Andrew Gold!
This should be very interesting. I’ll be listening on Patreon.🎧
Yesssss!
Black woman living in the Netherlands. It's a nice country people are very friendly. Feel free to come for a visit everyone...
Such an engaging conversation, thank you ❤
I absolutely loved this one!
Really interesting, she is awesomely a fantastic person. excellent episode Andrew! hi frm NZ
As a fellow black, Jewish woman, thank you Sara. I have a similar story in my biological family. Thank you for sharing your story with us. ❤❤
Great podcast as usual!! It would be great to hear the perspective of a Hasidic or ex-hasidic man about the women's issues in the community. Do they actually care if their wife makes eye contact with another man, what do they think about wigs etc etc.
Such a fascinating woman and a great interview Andrew.
Looking forward to this very much 😊✌️.
Hope you enjoy it!
Recognized your guest's Dutch accent. Sounds like my big sister and nieces and nephews. She sounds like from the North.
Terrific interview - you do find the most interesting people.
This was a lovely interview
The most awesome interview you have done so far.
Articulate and enthralling guest with a unique tale to tell.
Riveting to watch and be informed by.
aw thanks Rob!
I’ve loved all the Hasidic Jewish interviews Andrew. Sara was another fabulous strong woman who is paving her own way. She’s there because she chose to be and follows the rules her way. It actually reminded me of a story of my Dad in late 1966 or early 67. He was 19 and working as a bank teller. The bank manager kept at him to get a hair cut (Dad loved the Beatles) so he quit and joined the Army. Mum, newly wed at the time said “what did you do that for? The Army will give you a crew cut now”.
Dad replied “yep, but it was my choice”. If only it was the hair because then came 3 tours of Vietnam.
Sara was a lovely guest and I was also glad to hear that she would always put her children’s happiness first. That’s what a good mum does. ❤️
Nobody wants to hear the strong independent woman any more
@@suzygirl1843 Hey Suzy. I’m not sure what you mean? Did you like Sara?
@@jojowynne233 Doesn't matter if I like her or not. Everybody trying to gaslight each other and that's the problem
@@suzygirl1843 I only asked if you liked her to clarify if your comment was directed at her or the public in general. So I’m guessing from your gaslighting comment you’re talking about the public?
@@jojowynne233The “strong” woman attributed to black women is very dated, and nobody wants to be “strong or independent”. Why is the “strong” label applied to black women?
Very enjoyable discussion:)
I have heard her speak before, she is fascinating. She has been well accepted by NY Hasidic community, which I can attest is a vibrant community.
Thank you for sharing this story. This is the second UA-cam video I have seen with Ms. Braun telling her story. Quite frankly, I love it. I am a black American that grew up in the Catholic church and was taught that the Jewish people are the chosen people of Yahweh. I am no longer Catholic (but still Christian) and my love for Jewish people has never diminished. I do not know any Jewish people close up and personal myself, but if they are the beloved of Yahweh, I love them too!!! Again, thank you for sharing this story.
I too am a Catholic and black and I also believe the Jewish people are the beloved of God. I have always had a love for the Jewish people. I've never understood antisemitism. Still don't. I went to school with Jewish kids but I don't think they were religious. My across the street neighbors are Jewish.
@@aliciachristopher6506I’m Methodist but I had a Jewish boyfriend for almost 6yrs. He wasn’t orthodox. He was kind of “Jewish on holidays”. His dad had an orthodox Jewish cousin and I was invited to an Orthodox Seder a couple times and it was so interesting! While I myself am not religious, I find religion so interesting.
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So intetesting !! Her wig is gorgeous 😍 and her story so interesting. i live in the North West Cumbria in the Lake District and there isn't much diversity or massive range of religion. So the past 18 months i have travelled alot to London to see my surgeon and his team and i love it down there. They say Southerners aren't as going and quite cold... bs i speak to all walks of life down there and find people so intriguing. I find nothing but kindness and look forward to speaking and getting to know all walks of life. Great interview Andrew...everyday is a school day 👩🏼🎓
🥳How interesting. You live near Millom where I had ancestors hundreds of years ago.
Wig.
She is not wearing a wig. Pls visit east Africa to see with your own eyes that black people have long hair even in west Africa you see dark black with natural blue eye
She's great! I think the fact she grew up modern and made the choice freely to join the Hasidic community, is what makes her experience so refreshing. Whereas for the people born into religious sects, it's more serious when they try to get out because of the family's attachment to the religion.
I have listened to Sara Braun a couple of times, and her story fascinates me.
I soooo wish I could interview with you. I am a Caucasian woman and lived in China for two years in the late 80’s! It has coloured my life in a 100 ways!
Very professional edditing and general set up....soon you'll be too important to talk to us humble Edgehogs. well done for becomming one of the premier podcasters/ yotubers going.
Neveeeer
Love ur show blessings from North Texas please continue
Ahhh totally loved Sara what a fab woman & super interesting story 💞💞. Loved it thanks Andrew (even if I'm a bit late 🫤) 👏👏.
I don’t like that she said others that have negative experiences, are exaggerating a little bit. How does she know?
level headed, yet..
just a brilliant interview
mr gold.!
please interview this breath of fresh air again.!
radiants a life well lived and knowledgeable,
empowering.. 😉☺️😊😃
throughly enjoyed.!
✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻
This was very enjoyable. She was honest and straightforward.
I really enjoyed this. I learned so much.
I like this lady. I may not agree with everything she believes but she has a good heart, good morals and a generally good person
I just finished Sara Braun’s book. A wonderful read.
This interview is so interesting. It is all new to me so am enjoying
Great interview. Great guest.
So happy to see Sara on OTE! I originally watched her on Frieda's channel, and could seriously listen to her talk forever. Such an interesting life and perspective. ❤
Before listening, just want to say that it's really refreshing in the scene of -cult stuff, that you bring up lesser known "genres" (or what to call them??..different branches of some original form of..? some religion or set of beliefs?) of sects. Really important to "dig deeper" in to all varieties, so to say.
Looking forward to throwing myself on the couch with a pile of pillows and cats on top..Nearly 1 hr of best quality important stuff. 🤫
Lovely Lady, Wonderful interview!
This a great interview
Great interview! I just enjoyed the delicious Dutch accent. I assume that Sara is of Surinam descent but I could be wrong.
I am myself Dutch born - in a non-Jewish family and converted to Judaism in my early twenties. I will be 72 in a few weeks and am so proud of my children and grandchildren. My road to Torah Judaism (not Chassidic, by the way) was an intellectual journey; Sara seems to have been propelled by her vibrant Jewish neshomme (inner being, soul).
I really do not want to talk about the racism inside some sectors of the Jewish community. It is detestible.
Sara, have naches of all your children and many grandchildren. Klal Yisroel needs Jews like you.
What a perfectly lovely ,classy beautiful lady !she speaks with so much strength and grace!
What an amazing interview, When she started talking about the weddings I started to lose my Sh$t!
great and very interesting talk
Sara is amazing. What a beautiful spirit she has!
Ongelooflijk en geweldig verhaal!
Ja echt! En de manier waarop Sara haar verhaal vertelt, tot op het einde boeiend!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗
I literally laughed out loud when you were talking about how to say hello at the train station! Great interview! It's really true she can't sing in front of men? None? Does it matter if they're married or single?
Beautiful interview with a bright woman ❤
This is such a meaningful and beautiful conversation about what it means to be Jewish.
Many people who identify with being Jewish, by their speech and actions, are NOT Jewish, such as many US political leaders. This lady is lovely. I'm so glad she has children to perpetuate goodness in the world. Mr. Gold, you miss out on your heritage and so much joy by not bring observant! Thank you for bringing on such an authentic guest.
This women is fascinating. Very good interview.
This was so interesting.xx
Thank you, Andrew and Sara. It was good to hear the convert perspective. I thought Sara was dismissive of your other guests when she suggested some of their experience was exaggerated, or maybe this was just her English and how it came across. Sara's experience may be different, but that doesn't mean others from that community weren't far worse.
The fact is that she may have a more positive experience as she chooses this lifestyle, rather than it being forced on her from birth. It is also easier to have more self-confidence if you didn't grow up in such a closed community. In addition, if she was shunned or left I'm sure she would lose a lot but not as much as those who grew up there, at least her family are unconditional there for her on the outside and she understands life outside the community, which would make it easier to be confident in herself when making a stand against some practices such as arranged marriages. When in these communities, being confident about oneself and standing up for yourself isn't necessarily an option that could even be considered.
Good points. I think after this many years, she has a lot of people there that she does consider family. But she does still have her blood family, no matter what. I understand.
Sara is not a convert; her mother is/was a Jew.
@@rogerlephoque3661 I know that I must’ve missed that part somehow 😂
@roger le phoque Yes, she has lineage through her grandmother, which gives her the ethnicity connection, she could say she is Jewish her whole life. But she never lived the Hasidic lifestyle, so my points above stand. Her experience of seeking a hasidic life is that of a convert.
@@rogerlephoque3661 Is that a fact?