I T In Front Of The Rebbes Summary

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It is because culture refers to the cumulative system of knowledge shared by the group, as this group has, it is their cultivated behavior and the accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, it is their way of life as a group of people, beliefs, values and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. It also included the material objects and possessions acquired by the group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. And since Judaism is about how to live as much as what to believe.
She shows up in a mini-skirt and says “s**t in front of the rebbe, she removes the jacket and another woman comes and cover her legs and shoulders. When talking with the rebbe, because of her experience as a detective, she said “there is a thief inside every man” without knowing the other person’s culture. The detective tried to shake hands with the man, and the detective assumed that the rebbe does not speak English, when she is told that the rebbe speaks eight languages, she said, is English one of them. The
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The detective selected to wear a more conservative cloth line which will cover her legs and arms at all times. She tones down her brassy hair, and behaves less goyish in an attempt to blend in. In her gradual acceptance into the world and growing respect for the Hasidic life style, customs and traditions, she said “You people really care about each other”. The detective asked questions about their traditions and customs, like the cloth they wear, the hair on the side of head for man, and she learned some Hebrew worlds. And she goes and ask for forgiveness from the rebbe from her early way of talking about her knowledge

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