The conflict with family and faith is big and important. Having conflict with your family can really ruin a family and break it apart. Having conflict with faith leaves you confused and lost. In two of Chaim Potok’s novels, The Chosen and The Promise we see both conflict in family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith. To start off with Reuven and Danny become good friends after Danny nearly blinds Reuven during their intense softball game. Both boys are from different Jewish backgrounds. Reuven is a traditional Orthodox Jew and Danny is a Hasidic Jew. Reuven’s father is a dedicated scholar who wants his son to be a mathematician, but he wants to be a rabbi. Danny’s father is the head of
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Later on it is revealed that his father did this in order for his son to understand pain because early on he saw that his son was very intelligent and did not want his son to be heartless. It turned out that Danny really cares deeply for other people. Reuven is placed in a position as a middleman between Danny and his father. Reb. Saunders asks Reuven about whether Danny has been reading other literature, even though he already knew and Reuven confirms Danny’s secular studies. This is a struggle with family because Danny is not allowed to read any other books besides the ones his father allows. Danny is faced to choose between his father faith and what his father wants him to be and what he wants to be. This is both struggle of faith and family and Reuven tries to help him. Reuven’s dad speaks at a rally and Reb. Saunders does not approve of what he says and orders Danny not to speak to Reuven anymore. Danny only speaks to him to tell him that he is no longer allowed to talk to him and that he will not go against his father.Around this same time Reuven’s father suffers a heart attack and Reuven struggles with being alone after not being able to talk with Danny and his father’s health and he …show more content…
Rav. Jacob Kalman, one of Reuven’s teachers who has survived a Nazi death camp has Reuven choose between his views and his father’s view. Rav Kalman has seen Reuven at The Zechariah Frankel Seminary meeting with Abraham Gordon and tells him he should not meet with Gordon because he has been excommunicated for his books that question the foundations of Judaism or set foot in The Zechariah Frankel Seminary ever again because it unclean. Rav. Kalman tells Reuven that he cannot agree with his father 's way of explaining the Talmud and warns Reuven that he can 't give him permission to become a rabbi unless he stands by 'true Yiddishkeit ' and not with Gordon or his father. Reuven has his examinations to see if he will be given permission to become a rabbi. Rav Kalman and Rav Gershenson present to question him and Reuven explains the Talmud by using the modern way of his father. It went very well that both Rav. Gershenson and Rav. Kalman were surprised and had nothing left to ask on the third day of the examination, so it was cancelled. Reuven does not get to find out if he will be given permission to become a rabbi until 5 days after the exams. Rav. Kalman was against giving him permission because of the way Reuven explained the Torah, but Rav. Gershenson persuaded him to give permission to Reuven to become a
Later on it is revealed that his father did this in order for his son to understand pain because early on he saw that his son was very intelligent and did not want his son to be heartless. It turned out that Danny really cares deeply for other people. Reuven is placed in a position as a middleman between Danny and his father. Reb. Saunders asks Reuven about whether Danny has been reading other literature, even though he already knew and Reuven confirms Danny’s secular studies. This is a struggle with family because Danny is not allowed to read any other books besides the ones his father allows. Danny is faced to choose between his father faith and what his father wants him to be and what he wants to be. This is both struggle of faith and family and Reuven tries to help him. Reuven’s dad speaks at a rally and Reb. Saunders does not approve of what he says and orders Danny not to speak to Reuven anymore. Danny only speaks to him to tell him that he is no longer allowed to talk to him and that he will not go against his father.Around this same time Reuven’s father suffers a heart attack and Reuven struggles with being alone after not being able to talk with Danny and his father’s health and he …show more content…
Rav. Jacob Kalman, one of Reuven’s teachers who has survived a Nazi death camp has Reuven choose between his views and his father’s view. Rav Kalman has seen Reuven at The Zechariah Frankel Seminary meeting with Abraham Gordon and tells him he should not meet with Gordon because he has been excommunicated for his books that question the foundations of Judaism or set foot in The Zechariah Frankel Seminary ever again because it unclean. Rav. Kalman tells Reuven that he cannot agree with his father 's way of explaining the Talmud and warns Reuven that he can 't give him permission to become a rabbi unless he stands by 'true Yiddishkeit ' and not with Gordon or his father. Reuven has his examinations to see if he will be given permission to become a rabbi. Rav Kalman and Rav Gershenson present to question him and Reuven explains the Talmud by using the modern way of his father. It went very well that both Rav. Gershenson and Rav. Kalman were surprised and had nothing left to ask on the third day of the examination, so it was cancelled. Reuven does not get to find out if he will be given permission to become a rabbi until 5 days after the exams. Rav. Kalman was against giving him permission because of the way Reuven explained the Torah, but Rav. Gershenson persuaded him to give permission to Reuven to become a