Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for . · The Orchard. by David Hopen. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ari Eden has been surrounded by religion his entire life. For 17 years, he attended a small Orthodox Jewish school where religion came before education. He obeys all the rules and traditions, studying the Torah each night with his . · On today’s episode, Mitchell talks to David Hopen about his debut novel, The Orchard, and the balance between secular involvement and rigorous tradition in modern Orthodox Judaism. From the episode: Mitchell Kaplan: How much of our story is reflected by your own experience as well? Did you come from an Orthodox family? David Hopen: This [ ].
David Hopen blends philosophizing and partying in 'The Orchard'. Protagonist Ari Eden is intrigued by the decadence and freedom at his new school. In the mysterious prologue of David Hopen's debut novel "The Orchard," protagonist Aryeh (Ari) Eden is asked by his English teacher whether tragedy (or "majestic sadness") died with the. David Hopen's debut coming-of-age book The Orchard is about an Orthodox Jewish student whose life is transformed when he arrives at a new school. The book follows students on the verge of adulthood and is in part based on a Jewish myth. The book itself took Hopen nearly his entire twenties after he started it while he was the characters' ages. We creep closer and closer toward God, each time halving the distance, but what we stand before is only an approximation. We move to new places, we visualize new achievements, but the yearning remains, because a life devoid of longing is not, in the eyes of the Talmud, a life fit for a human." Does this essay successfully encapsulate Ari's.
The Orchard is a wildly ambitious, propulsive novel touching on big, life-altering topics, but David Hopen manages that weight by never losing grip on the story, which blends philosophical questions with a unique thriller and a group of teenagers who command your attention. At the heart of the novel there’s a yearning, a reckoning with those moments when we transform and when we wonder if we can ever go back. David Hopen is author of the novel The Orchard. He is a student at Yale Law School. Raised in Hollywood, Florida, he earned his master’s from the University of Oxford and graduated from Yale College. In David Hopen's novel, The Orchard, the main action is set in motion by a discussion of the Jewish legend of Pardes. In the tale, four celebrated sages enter the orchard, but only one emerges unscathed by his encounter with the divine. The word "Pardes" comes from the ancient Persian word pairidaeza, which refers to an enclosed garden. The Pardes legend can be found in the Tosefta, an anthology of laws attributed to Jewish sages gathered between 0 and CE, and the Talmud, the central.
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