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Beliefs, Customs and traditions define every aspect of Jewish life. From the
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day a Jew is born until after they die, every day marks a different stage of
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life, each with its own personal and religious significance
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The Eights Day
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“Nature is what you started out with, not
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what you want to become.”
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Spoken by Joseph the Physician to
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Micha, these words reflect the eternal
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struggle between the wish to ‘fit in’ and
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the desire to serve a higher calling.
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Religious life for a Jewish man begins on
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the eights day after his birth, and marks
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his initiation into the ritual cycle of life.
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Set in the days of the Maccabim when
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the Greeks ruled the promised land, The
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Eights Day follows the struggle of a
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father from the desire to give his son a
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‘normal’ Greek life, to his recognition of
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the importance of his Jewish heritage and
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a growing urgency to proudly pass it to
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his young son.
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The Journey
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Set in the Marxist Soviet Union of 1941 when freedom of thought and belief
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were crimes against the state, The Journey is the story of American Civil
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Engineer Jonathan Levinson and youngster Nikolai Krone. As Nikolai awakens
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to being no longer a child, he learns that it is now up to him to ask the important
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questions in life, and to find the answers he needs. Through the miraculous
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meeting of Jonathan and Nikolai they both come to embrace the beauty and
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importance of the Bar-Mitzva ceremony, and the privilege and responsibility it
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bring to being a full adult Jewish man.
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The Corridor
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The last landmark in the Jewish Life Cycle is death and burial.
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Sharon, a young girl in Israel as a summer volunteer, has a near death
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experience as she survives a near-fatal car crash. Following Sharon through a
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series of profound discoveries, The Corridor portrays the difficulty of coping
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with extraordinary inner truths as she deals with skeptics and believers alike.
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Sharon then gets a new neighbor in the next hospital bed who reveals to her
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some of the deeper Jewish beliefs on the matter.
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“Beyond the seven days of creation there is an eight day”
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Through extraordinary human stories The Jewish Life cycle paints beautiful pictures
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of religious discovery and the importance of these landmarks in a person’s life.
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From the day we are born and begin a brave new life until after our death, this is the
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Jewish cycle of life. |
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