![]() ![]() To Danny, Reuven is an apikoros because he goes to a school that teaches more English. While on base, Danny asks Reuven if his father is David Malter and tells Reuven that his team will kill "you apikorsim" this afternoon (apikoros, plural apikorsim, means a Jew who denies the basic tenets of his faith, indicating one who accepts Darwinism, for example). ![]() ![]() Danny Saunders hits a double and ends at Reuven's base. Davey Cantor warns Reuven of Danny Saunders of the opposing team, the son of Reb Saunders. Reuven plays against a team of Orthodox students, each with a crisp uniform that contrasts with Reuven's more casual team. Galanter, a gym instructor in his early thirties. Reuven plays for the softball team, led by Mr. Danny attends a small yeshiva (Jewish parochial school), while Reuven attends the yeshiva in which his father teaches in Crown Heights, one which offers more English subjects and uses Hebrew instead of Yiddish.ĭanny and Reuven only meet because of the desire of Jewish parochial teachers to show the physical fitness of their students by organizing into competitive athletic leagues. There were also other Hasidic sects nearby, populated with their own rabbis that hold their own loyalties. The area in which Danny lives is populated by Russian Hasidic Jews who were fiercely loyal to Danny's father. The narrator of The Chosen is Reuven Malter, a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn who tells that he grew up several blocks away from Danny, not knowing of his existence until he was fifteen. ![]()
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