A Juan Manuel de Prada, amigo de la familia en momentos difíciles.
In recent times, the Netflix catalog has consolidated a new genre: criticism of Jewish religious communities.From the American documentary One of Us (2017) or the Swiss film the Motti Wolkenbruch (2018), to the Israeli series Shtisel (2018) or the German series Unorthodox (2020), the formula is always the same: an individual (or group of individuals) flees from the hard demands of ultra-orthodox Judaism.
Or rather of orthodox Judaism, since the prefix 'ultra' is nothing more than a contempt (as in 'ultra-left' or 'ultra-right').And what is Jewish orthodoxy?Comply with the halajá religious law, participate in the prayers of the synagogue, ten festivities and seven annual fasts, rest on Saturdays (Sabat), eat only allowed foods (Kosher), marry an orthodox couple and have a lot of offspring.
All religions have more orthodox branches: those that insist on thinking and acting according to their tradition, in front of that modern mania that is innovation, something excellent in technical or medical, but unproductive in the spiritualThe centuries pass, the good is still good, the truth is still true and the beauty is still beautiful).Examples of religious orthodoxy are, in the Christianity of Eastern Europe, the pravoslavie (= correct glorification);In the Islamic world are the Sunni (= customs of the prophet), in Hinduism is Sanatana-Dharma (= eternal traditions) ... although Netflix has chosen Judaism as the target of its criticisms (for being the oldest and most strict western religion), the attack is directed against all religious orthodoxy in general.
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The reality afore).The synopsis: At 43, Julia Haart decides to flee from Monso, Orthodox Jewish Community.He divorces and takes his children with him, in search of a free and prosperous life.
So far, we would be facing another Netflix production about the urban exodus as an empowering act.Thus it happened, for example, in One of Us: Luzer leaves the parish of Boro Park to enjoy “Bacon and Cinema” by Los Angeles.The same in Unorthodox: the young ETSY changes the small Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg for the great cosmopolitan city of Berlin.And, miraculously, the 'city lights' cure introversion and vaginism!But Julia Haart's reality raises an even more miraculous turn: emancipated from all orthodoxy, the HAART amounts to the 'free world' until it becomes the millionaire elite CEO World Group, fashion multinational.Netflix redouble the seductive commitment of the modern world: we offer Baratijas of Sex Shop and Fast Food, for discounted, but you also have the American Dream to enrich yourself without limits.
And for this, the only requirement would be to part with any religious or moral restriction.Haart says that the key to success was to abandon the orthodox use of clothing (that is, cover oneself and express group membership) and embrace the capitalist concept of clothing: uncovering and individualistic expression.As a prize to this simple change, the millions of silver coins arrived.And the same advice gives the eldest son and the eldest daughter: you will get rich if you change the humble study of the Torah for the lucrative study of commercial law, and if you change the liturgical dance of Hava Nagila for choreographies in Tiktok.
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Throughout reality, we verify that modernity is also an orthodoxy (with its own rites and dogmas), but even more jealous and oppressive.Haart changes the 20 hours a week of prayer for 20 hours a day of work, change the family party of the Sukkos for the hustle and hustle.HAART preaches his new faith with the zeal of convert.
Haart's justification is always the same: "I want you to explore all the possibilities and then decide".This is Lucifer's classic fallacy: the fallen angel urges us to try the fruit of good and evil.The 'trick' is that entering the ability to discern and prefer good automatically mine.The animal that proves blood is no longer meek.The one that has become addicted no longer judges impartially.In the same way, the consciousness of the modern subject is annulled under constant exposure to graphic violence, the abuse of various technologies and substances, pornography ...
Julia Haart ends the conversation with the youngest son by pulling temporary authority: "I am 49 years old and you are only 14".This phrase comes from the same HAART that states that Orthodox tradition is not respectable just because it is ancient.After the talk, Haart speaks the subject with the youngest daughter, her best disciple.The youngest daughter, polyamorous activist, usually complains that in Monsey they treated her bisexuality as a mere temporary phase.On this occasion, the youngest daughter comforts her mother: "Do not worry about the religiosity of my little brother, surely it is just a phase".These two appointments are enough as an example of the hypocritical modern mentality, arranged (like a wolf) to bite the hand that fed it.
Tradition as a lamb
One day, the youngest daughter dares with another 'subversive' gesture, changing the paternal last name for Haart's.Mother and youngest daughter decide to go to Monsey to communicate the decision to the ex-March.The youngest daughter prepares to dress according to Mansey's rules, but Julia Haart, looking up as a devil as a devil perched on her shoulder, suggests going in shirt and adjusted jeans.Not even the youngest, provocative cream daughter, sees the need to enter the community violating its rules, but Julia ends up convincing her.
Once in Monsey, Julia announces the youngest daughter "prepare so that everyone looks at you, for going in pants".And, which self -complicated prophecy, everyone looks at them.But it happens, rather, because the HAART walks through the village "dressed in chillón green, heels of twenty centimeters and with the tits outside" (in the words of his partner) and, above all, because he bursts with a red bentley coach andA little boy of cameramen."I hate coming to this place," the haart laments, barely hiding its joy in provocation.The 'freedom' of modernity has a lot to do with the usual slavery to scandalize others, to wear out each taboo, to permanently transgress to be 'to the last'.
Finally, the youngest daughter communicates to the ex-March her decision to renounce her surname.She prepares for an angry reaction, but he hugs her and tells her how proud her father is to be, whatever her decisions are.As the series tries to 'put the orthodox characters in trouble, an awkward truth is revealed.The more Haart's modern ferocity and the youngest daughter increase, the more they find the loving resignation of the most orthodox.
This is also the case when the eldest daughter announces her husband (son -in.The son -in.The same after the aggressive discussion of the Haart against his religious minor son: he sends a message to the mobile saying that he wants it as it is, regardless of his religious or atheist identity.
The Unorthodox series (2020) had a similar end.When the young Esty flees to Berlin, her orthodox husband crosses the ocean to find her and ask her to stay with him.It offers to renounce any belief that bothers her, cutting her holy tirabuzones right there.She rejects him, "it's too late" (what are six years of marriage when he has been Berlin modern!).
Without pretending, Netflix shows that tradition is, above all, wanting unconditionally.And modernity is his declared enemy.The Netflix crusade against Judaism is a crusade against all religions.And the crusade against all religions is a crusade against love.
