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  • August 31, 2017 4:21 pm at 4:21 pm #1352490
    bplady
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    The movie Menashe is attracting a lot of frum Yiden,many, who would never go to a movie. I think it’s maaseh soton. What do you think?

    August 31, 2017 4:43 pm at 4:43 pm #1352535
    Joseph
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    I very much agree with you.

    August 31, 2017 5:47 pm at 5:47 pm #1352564
    👑RebYidd23
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    No. I am not going to see it, and I like entertainment because I don’t want to be alone with my thoughts. So if I can resist it, so can you.

    August 31, 2017 9:12 pm at 9:12 pm #1352631
    Gadolhadorah
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    we saw it several weeks ago and enjoyed it. If you like this genre of “gritty” message movie (aka widower father’s love for his son v. rebbe’s insistence on need for a “stable family life” etc.) its reasonably well done and edited down to a short length. I’m not sure what the “mamash soton” element of this movie as its quite harmless….

    August 31, 2017 9:22 pm at 9:22 pm #1352653
    bplady
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    I am certain it’s a good movie. I had seen Menashe himself on some you tube clips and he was quite funny.
    My issue is that it’s playing in movie theaters, thus drawing Chasidim to go to the theatre. If this would play in heimish venues, just for our people, it would be much better. In case anyone is interested, last week’s Jewish Press had an interesting article about the movie.

    August 31, 2017 9:22 pm at 9:22 pm #1352650
    👑RebYidd23
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    What do you mean? Its seeming innocuousness is making people see a movie!

    August 31, 2017 9:22 pm at 9:22 pm #1352649
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    He said maaseh soton, not mamash soton.

    And I also agree. It’s hard to find a better example of a slippery slope.

    This is a film produced by and primarily for secular people, and even if the content is 100% appropriate (I don’t know if it is or isn’t, and I don’t usually take the word of someone willing to expose themselves to the unknown), I wouldn’t want to cross that line.

    August 31, 2017 10:08 pm at 10:08 pm #1352658
    Lubavitcher
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    Movies. R usser 100% it’s bad100%

    August 31, 2017 11:42 pm at 11:42 pm #1352660
    bplady
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    I hear that the movie is about a father not being able to raise his son because he is single. The son has to live with family. This may true by certain Chasidim, but it’s not so by most Yiden. The goyim will think all
    Yiden are this way. I don’t feel this depicts us in good way.

    September 1, 2017 12:35 am at 12:35 am #1352723
    Gadolhadorah
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    The movie actually shows how the father desperately wants to raise his young son alone after his wife dies but his rav feels the son should be raised by his brother-in-law’s family until the father, who works long hours at a heimeshe grocery, remarries and has someone at home for the child. Its a feel good movie, nothing at all that would raise concerns about pritzus, tzinius, or any visual kafirah.

    September 1, 2017 9:40 am at 9:40 am #1352758
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    I’m surprised this thread wasn’t taken down yet – especially since the last one was.
    I wonder how long it will take until it is.

    I know nothing about the movie, but reading this thread could make someone curious enough to watch it.

    September 1, 2017 9:40 am at 9:40 am #1352824
    lesschumras
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    What I find interesting is that the posters who are ripping the movie and declaring it assur haven’t seen it. Every review I’ve read said that it is one of the few movies that puts Chassidim in a positive light. Of course, what do they know, they’ve actually seen it

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