Julian Barnett
Hidden Jewish Sects of Jerusalem, Part 1
Summary
Julian Barnett begins a series of lectures on the people that populate the skin and bones of Jerusalem, this time specifically focusing on the ultra-orthodox sects of the city. Part 1 of 2.
Julian Barnett
Julian Barnett is a teacher, collector, tour guide, and writer with a specialist interest in ultra-orthodoxy within the various faiths. For the last 35 years, he has been investigating and documenting the most extreme sects of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. His experiences and travels were serialized in the Jerusalem Report and also broadcast on BBC Radio Four Religion. Outside of his full-time history teaching post at Southbank International School, Portland Place, London, Julian lectures at numerous venues around the UK and beyond. In 2013 Julian was a joint winner of the National Teacher of the Year Award.
I mean, I suppose a subsection within the group. So if I understand your question correctly, within Me'a She'arim itself, I mean Me'a She'arim is mainly, but not entirely, but mainly Hasidic. Although there are some other non-Hasidic Jews in Me'a She'arim as well. There are those , there are Sephardi, there are some Yekas and Litvish but in the main . So by the sects, I was referring to those different Hasidic groups within Me'a She'arim. Bells, Todes Aaron, Todes Aaron , a small Lubovich presence in the Me'a She'arim but it is very small. Satma, very small. Pupa, slightly larger. and so on. That’s what I mean by the sects.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean everybody keeps to that rule, if you get me. It is forbidden. Well, yes, it is completely frowned upon and forbidden, but it’s there, believe me.
Pretty much all embracing because there is the rabbinic Judaism, which instructs the the preservation of life overrides all, almost, I should say almost all other things, other than murder, adultery, and idol worship. So modern medicine is and should be embraced.