The documentary A Life Apart, about Hasidic Jews, shows the value of education in the religious life of the Hasids. At age three, they have a ceremony where they go to school and read the alphabet. As they read each letter, they eat a piece of candy to reinforce the sweetness of learning (A Life Apart: Hasidism in America [PBS, 1997], 47:00). Parents have only a short time with their children—just 18 summers before they may move out and go on their way. During that time, we have certain truth...
The Sweetness of Learning
The documentary A Life Apart, about Hasidic Jews, shows the value of education in the religious life of the Hasids.
