Chasing the Shadow
The extraordinary personality and biography of Rabbi Shagar, told by his pupil, filmmaker and Rabbi Vardi
A personal cinematic journey of director Rabbi Mordechai Vardi, following the decease of his teacher, Rabbi Shagar from cancer at age 57.
As a pupil who felt rejected, the director finds himself in an unsolved position and now, after Rabbi Shagar passed away, he sets out to scrutinize the relationship between a rabbi and a his pupil. could that relationship exist, in general, without being complex?
Rabbi Mordechai Vardi is the rabbi of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim and a director, scriptwriter and head of script-writing department at Ma'aleh school of Television, Film, & the Arts.
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