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As a Jew you are very aware of time, the calander. you are also very aware of what time to eat, plan events, and to pray. Many jews were yarmalike. They wear this whenever the eat, drink, pray, and go  on everyday lives. They where this as a symbol and respect towards god

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Click Here for more videos! www.youtube.com/epicnesstogobased on the book, "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok.

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Most Jews hold that being the "Chosen People" means that they have been place on earth to fulfill a certain purpose. Traditional proof for Jewish "chosenness" is found in the Torah, the Jewish bible, in the Book of Deuteronomy (chapter 14) where it says: "For you are a holy people to Hashem your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth

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Potok's novel The Chosen concerns the tensions of living a religious life in a secular society. This conflict is reflected through an examination of two Jewish communities in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York. Potok grew up in New York City and started writing fiction when he was only sixteen years old. Potok received a rigorous religious and secular education at Yeshiva University, a school very similar to the fictional Hirsch Seminary and College in The Chosen.

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The tensions between tradition and modern American life is a frequent theme in Jewish literature and, more broadly, in American immigrant literature. The Chosen explores this theme in an unusual and distinctive manner, focusing on the ways in which different Jewish communities attempt to strike a balance between tradition and modernity, and the tension this effort creates. Instead of becoming completely assimilated into American culture,

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The promise is a sequel of Ruevens young adult hood  to the chosen. The Promise details issuing the value and identity of Orthodox and Hesidic Jews. The Promise expands on this relationship and introduces others, all against the backdrop of a flood of Orthodox Jews coming to America after World War II to rebuild their lives. The Promise is divided into three books, each of which mark out a major stage in both Reuven and Michael's conflicts, which appear to mirror one another. In Book One, both characters (along with all the others) are introduced. Book Two is a long and steady examination of the nature of both conflicts and expands upon the tension within both Reuven and Michael. In Book Three, the conflicts are both resolved. Both the chosen and the promise both won awards for outstading literature.

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Danny and Reuven become good friends even though they are from different branches of Judaism. Danny, a Hasidic Jew, meets Reuven, a Zionist, while playing stickball. Even though they have differences, their friendship grows strong. When they reach college, outspoken support by Reuven's professor father (Maximilian Schell) for a national Jewish state causes conflicts with Danny's conservative father (Rod Steiger), leading to tension for the friends

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Chaim Potok was born on February 17, 1929 in New York City. Chaim's Parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants who migrated to the U.S. from Poland. Potok also had a brother and 2 sister who were raised in Orthodox Jewish Religion.  Potok went to college at Talmudic Academy of Yeshiva College. While in college Potok loved his jewish religion he knew there was more to learn. Potok read a book called Brideshead Revisited
which was forbidden to read in his religion. The Book influenced Potok that he could also have a secular or second religion. After Graduating from the Yeshiva College he study more about  literature and  that is when he wrote his book the chosen. Later after the chosen had become well known, he published a sequel to chosen, and named it The Promise. Potok also won many awards for his great work of literature.

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Similarities between Potok and the characters  

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Similarities between Potok and the characters  

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Potok chooses Reuven to narrate The Chosen, even though the novel’s central conflict is Danny’s desire to break away from his obligation to inherit his father’s position as Tzaddik. Reuven works well as a narrator because we share his position as a curious outsider looking in on the unfamiliar, secret world of Hasidism. Although The Chosen focuses equally on both Reuven’s and Danny’s personal and religious development, it is Danny’s story that provides the central conflict of the novel and sets in motion both protagonists’ process of discovery. Danny and Reuven’s similarities—their love of learning, quick minds, and deep Jewish faith—allow them to relate to one another and become friends.

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The Chosen traces intellectual moral, and physiology growth of a young protagonist. The chosen primary develops a problem between two characters. Danny and Rueven had many problems in the beginning of the story when Danny hits Rueven in the eye with a baseball. When Rueven was at a point were he could lose his eye,  Danny felt bad about hitting him and they brought them closer together. They soon found out that Danny and Rueven are both Jews but they study different materials. There differences brought them together.

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At the start of The Chosen, World War II is coming to an end. War was a huge factor in the novel and references to the war was written on almost every page. The thought about war drives many of the problems in the book, and fuels the political conflicts that impact the characters in many ways. Towards the end of the book, Israel is established as a state. These conflicts go deep into their personal and family lives, forcing them to make difficult choices.