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The HASIDIC shtern (sukkah star) || special holiday ART

Let me introduce you to the #shtern! A different kind of Jewish star! In this video, I will tell you all about the special paper art called "shtern". I will explain its religious application, my own experience with shterns, and most of all, I will show you how to make a shtern! I love the shtern because it's one of those things that many Hasidic women make. There are many lively things in the world of #Hasidic women that never get noticed for its creativity and cultural importance, and for me, the shtern is one of them. It was a way I channeled my own #creative energy and it created a very warm holiday experience. The pictures in this video are my home photos. **** Video transcript: Hi, I'm Frieda Vizel and welcome or welcome back to my channel where I explore various aspects of the Hasidic Jewish community's life, culture, history, and more... a world which I come from and I remain very deeply interested in. There are so many things in Hasidic toy stores and gift shops and craft shops that I think are really interesting and I'd love to share them with you unpack them and analyze them, but being as I am limited in both time and funds and I have my pick up just a few, one of my top favorites is the stern art set, or as I like to call it: Hasidic origami. The shtern art set is a specific kind of cutting and folding technique that involves very shiny paper and when assembled comes out to a very lovely piece of wall decoration. The word shtern is yiddish for star and shtern sets are sold all over the neighborhood in various patterns, levels of difficulty, color scheme, and of course price range, and more. One of the reasons I love the shterns is because it's perhaps one of the things that is a more female-oriented item in the shops. And I feel like so much of the attention when it comes to the Hasidic communities is often devoted to men. There's such a strong presence of men on the internet, on youtube and so on. And I feel like so much of the scholarship is often focused on rabbis who are of course men, and I'm very partial to things that touch more on the female experience, because: one, it was my experience when I was Hasidic, and also because I think it just is so very unexplored. So I want to share with you how this very lovely shtern gets made. Arrange and mark each sheet with a number. -Fold each sheet three times. -Cut and attach the pattern pieces. -Cut the colored papers based on the pattern. -Unfold the papers. -Interlock all the colored papers. What do you do with a lovely shtern? Well, you usually make a set of two, and you hang it inside the sukkah for the holiday Sukkos. I shared a little bit about the holiday Sukkos on my video tour of Hasidic Williamsburg and I hope to share much more by hopefully perhaps one day taking you inside someone or some people's sukkah, but for now here's the short of it: for seven or so days Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkahs, a fall holiday, by having all their meals inside a hut that is open to the sky. And as I understand it, that hut is reminiscent of the way the Jews wandered in the desert for 40 years before they arrived to Israel. The huts in Hasidic Williamsburg are usually built on people's balconies or driveways. Every family will usually have a private sukkah hut and it'll be lovingly decorated with bamboo and color lights, on the ceiling grapes, and on the walls various shtern sets. I love the holiday Sukkas. I have many very fond memories of the holiday and even after I left the community, for as long as I had a yard, I built my own sukkah. And I have many memories of my father making very complex shtern sets without a pattern because those were the days before you could buy the ready-to-be-made patterns in the shops and I think a part of my sweet feelings towards the shterns comes from that our family was known in the entire neighborhood for having both the largest and smallest shterns of everyone in town. So that's the shtern. I want to thank my wonderful editor Steve Milligan for having put together this wonderful shtern. I hope he'll do something with it, perhaps build a hut to go along with it, and all of you thanks for watching. Please subscribe, share, spread the word, bye. **** Thanks for watching. Please subscribe and share to help me continue to produce videos. Thanks to ‪@shootitsteve‬ for making and filming the shtern for this video. I think it came out nice! Website: https://friedavizel.com/ Instagram:   / friedavizel   Twitter:   / friedavizel   Facebook:   / toursbyfrieda