Tevye’s response to the rabbi’s son is the perfect punchline.

"ah, go away."

I have a far bigger problem with Perchik calling the rich criminals and having a personal claim on their wealth (probably by stealing it). Communism is an insidious Evil. Perchik's hatred of the wealthy is far more insidious and evil than the sexism of the Rabbi's son. The Rabbi's son's sexism is an annoyance. Perchik's statement about stealing wealth from rich people is unadulterated evil. And what makes it worse, the Perchiks of Russia had their way for 70 years.

@@dovbarleib3256 how is that evil? stealing money from the rich and giving it to the poor and impoverished is the most moral thing you can do.

@@thelegom7116 My G-d, I am not a Christian, but I am sure that Jesus encouraged loving acts of charity and good will to the poor from the free will of the giver! I highly doubt that he encouraged wholesale robbery on a national scale and then beating up Capitalists and throwing them into vats of acid if they did not comply.

:D

Carlos Dasilva You're right! Lol.

He's right and he's right.....

They can’t BOTH be right...

You know your also right...

Faustin Forester it’s so perfect

the way he look ar God xD

Girls should learn too. Girls are people

@@evanyasser4412 *A RADICAL!*

@@ruicorreia6373 ah go away

@@evanyasser4412 “I’d be willing to teach them, open their minds to great thoughts!”

I've watched this movie probably more than 50 times and I never noticed that thanks for pointing it out LOL

@Janet Lee Me too

Loved this movie.!!

I genuinely think this is one of the funniest scenes of all time, although the humor is pretty Jewish so I might be biased.

@@jacobyoung729 Good writing and good characterization are transcendent. As a wise man once said "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there."

Charity (practice) wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_(practice)

@@junesilvermanb2979 May God bless and keep the Czar..... *Far away from us!*

@@webaah6070FAR away from US!!

One represents holding onto tradition and one represents the abandonment of tradition.

Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize this, but yes

@@davidanderson6055 both are still traditional by faith, it's just by way of thought. This represented more of Hodel's desire for a rich man over her love for a poor man.

no, duh that is the point

do we really need to spell it out like janet and john books? are all our children growing up as morons?

@@CR-ty5eg Wow, wound up much?

Janet and John? What ever happened to Dick, Jane, and Sally?

Johan Newaz You misunderstood their point. In Matchmaker, Hodel has her eye on the rabbi's son.

The rabbi's son lives in the village though...how would he not know that lol 😂

He was the one character I remember from when I first saw this movie for the first time in the theater.

I'm sorry to hear this. I love how he says "they can't both be right"! Great scene ☺️

Must be sweet. Wish i had that.

Maybe I can move there. My grandmother her father's father, came from county mayo, Ireland. My father side of family my grandmother his mom. Taught my dad galic some Irish words ancient Irish words.

I’m doing the show now as Mendel. How did he say it that was so hilarious?

He didn't know it perfectly, but he knew some of it.

What does it saaaahy.

Youre missing it. he doesnt WANT to say it. Its extremely bad news.

he's just biting his time

Shit, that's me.

@@riversong4997 I get to the point but they want to know why or how. I’m just the messenger , I don’t ask

I've watched this film so many times and I never noticed Tevye protecting his milk from the spit XD

OH MY GOD you're right about Barry Dennen!!!!! OMG, this makes my night, that he's also in Jesus Christ Superstar!! Both of these movies are woven into the very fiber of my being and I didn't even realize they share an actor. I, too, love this scene. There's so many tiny details that are so funny and wonderfully character based. The guy who keeps automatically complimenting himself with "Well said!," the hubris of young Perchik, the way Mendel keeps hanging around territorially like a little bit of a pest. Also, as time has gone by, there's so little difference between this scene, and the steampunk scene in, say, Portland. Everything old is new again. ;)

Well, Norman Jewison must have liked directing him in this enough to want to do it again.

You know , you are also right!

Susanne Nygaard Kaspersen He's so fine. As is his son, who's probably about the same age -- maybe a little older -- as Paul was here.

Definitely! Though it is a little odd seeing him with brown eyes. Looks fine, just unexpected. He was 27 here. Both he and the director thought he was too old for the part, but he ended up getting anyhow. He does a good job of playing younger than he is for this role.

Starsky and Hutchinson.

Torah en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah

Which married a christian?

@@MrCool-qi7cy Chava

@@mikegallant811 Looks more like a Roman Catholic.

Alex Bundy you know, the original christians

@@MrCool-qi7cy Roman Catholics are Christians - I must know, afterall I am one. Just like Sunni and Shiites are both muslim faiths. Protestants, Orthodox - all Christians. Just like not all Jews believe the exact same interpretation of the Torah and their exact faith varies slightly depending on region & tradition

And not Frozen? OMGGGGGGG Just kidding. lol I hate Frozen

+115371929961149586468 correction, not like, love

rustyshadow7 Surely Sound of Music rates at least a like to?

I'm Just Out For a Stroll Sound of Music's got some good tunes but the historical and sociocultural aspects are secondary to the main plot. Fiddler is a time capsule from beginning to end. Fiddler is a masterpiece... And the film -- the casting, directing, interpretation -- is far superior to the original play.

Nathaniel Johnson I have a theory that no one over 5 actually really likes Frozen, but that Disney has done such a superb job marketing and re-marketing that those efforts, combined with that one great song, has convinced the general population that it's good, when it's kinda shit.

Well put!! *spit*

Lenin killed a whole lot of the radicals first so uhhhhh probably not Also, the prison Perchik was sent to was in Siberia, a location that even today is a two day trip by train and is far away from anything close to civilization. If Lenin didn't do him in, the brutal winter might have.

@@KariIzumi1I know. I said 'hope', nothing more.

Maybe the book explains it. But it was commonplace in Europe for Jewish students to go to yeshivas or universities far from their villages and be offered a bed & food my Jewish families near the schools they attended. Even Einstein experienced this practice in his own home when he was young.

I heard he was on his way to visit his rich uncle. (wink).

Plenty of young socialists travelled to rural areas to spread radical ideas and attempt to mobilise the peasants as a revolutionary force.

@@IAmTheUltimateRuler I was thinking the same thing. I noticed that Tevye, who sang "if I were a rich man" agreed with the student that he would like to be rich. But he only wants the rich man's money of the rich are willing to give it. The student doesn't say anything, but implies he's willing to take it by force.

He was 100% Jewish. He was there to show what the beginning of communism looked like. He was educated and studied in the University in Kiev and was introduced to a whole different way of life that they did not know about.

Perchik is Jewish. He's just not as religious as the Jews in Anatevka. He keeps his head covered (granted not every Jew covers their head nowadays), teaches the Old Testament and not the New Testament, he took part in the Sabbath and thinking of getting married in the Jewish traditions because Jews marry under a canopy and not at an altar Also, because Perchik has lived outside Anatevka and in the world, he's more educated then the people Anatevka and understands the world better then they do and that's why he's telling them they need to know what's going on in the outside world. Perchik knew that sooner or later, the troubles of the outside world would eventually come for all of them and this was proven by the end of the story. Because no one wanted to be informed about that, there wasn't anything they could do about it and they all had to leave

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Like the way he says.. 👍👌

I recently discovered that one of my great-grandfathers was Jewish and I figured that explained a lot XD

We are all descended from Adam and Eve.

@@LivingCrusader Only if they both lived in 1 valley in Africa.

@@gusjackson3658 And had a daughter too, not just 2 sons

Eww, no. This world needs more Tevyes.

@@magonus195 I stand corrected. 💁‍♂️

The last thing we need are “revolutionists.”

@@johnnyd3158 Yes. You are right.

I get what you mean. It would be nice if people took an interest in their government and kept it in check but Perchik IS a radical. He is willing to take by force what is NOT his in comparison to Tevye who would take it if the rich were agreeable with the idea.

They should have included Hutch in this film.

Yes. :)

Looked so tasty.

Sharp Cheddar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 !!! Talk.....(,with a quivering tone)!!!!

Do you know anything about the type of cheese it could be?

@@MrCool-qi7cy looks like a type of Gouda

How can you be both Christian and atheist?

Gracie p-n Ah! My favorite character! You must practice these lines: "Quiet everybody! QUIET DOWN!" 🙂

Fresh cow cheese.

Kraft.

JoyandHappinessIsWithinUsAll Smegma

Well he got the biggest order.

@@MrCool-qi7cy The poor man waited for so long for his answer...

“You know, you are also right.”