{"id":12885,"date":"2019-10-07T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:26:42","slug":"motel-miracles-may-be-likely-to-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12885","title":{"rendered":"Motel, Miracles May Be Likely to Occur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles<\/a><\/em> is a new documentary<\/a> on the making and lasting influence of Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>. It first appeared on Broadway in 1964, was released as a movie in 1971, and has been on stages around the world ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through cast, crew and luminaries\u2019 commentary, [Max] Lewkowicz examines the play\u2019s time-transcending magic as he wonders why \u201cmainstream America is interested in a bunch of Jews living in a pale of Russia of 1905.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cTevye is from the shtetl, but his message is universal,\u201d Lewkowicz told The Jerusalem Post from his New York home. \u201cHe could be a family man in Honduras, or anywhere in the world for that matter \u2013 a father whose children rebel and want to go a different way against his will. He is a man whose tradition is being seriously challenged.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Motel may have believed marrying Tzeitel to be a miracle of miracles, but many smarter-than-thou philosophers have argued against miracles being a thing (FWIW, “When You Wish Upon a Star” is now playing on my Your Classical stream<\/a>). Michael J. Kruger of Reformed Theological Seminary has a post about a popular view on miracles, that “given how unlikely miracles are, <\/a>it is always more likely that a miracle did\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0occur.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we must remember the context of every “miraculous” event. If God is living and active in our world, then miracles will occur. They may even be likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles is a new documentary on the making and lasting influence of Fiddler on the Roof. It first appeared on Broadway in 1964, was released as a movie in 1971, and has been on stages around the world ever since. Through cast, crew and luminaries\u2019 commentary, [Max] Lewkowicz examines the play\u2019s … Continue reading Motel, Miracles May Be Likely to Occur<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[966,1897],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-religion","tag-fiddler-on-the-roof","tag-miracles"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}