I got super emotional when Tevye said "then God be with you" to Chava because it showed that he was forgiving his daughter / supporting her. Honestly, when I was a little girl, I never completely understood why he acted the way he did. I was angry in my youth and basically like: ' Parents are the worst. ' But now as I have gotten older and talked with my own parents about certain things. I realize Tevye wasn't a bad father, he loved his daughters more then life itself and he did as much as he could even when it wasn't enough. He still managed to go beyond. ; ;
姫パン I’m playing chava in the musical, and it is very hard to act this out because I can’t understand why, and it’s hard to act a reaction. %100 agree with you.
姫パン It is the horrific reality of religion. One group expels them because their beliefs are different, and within the religion it causes Tevye to expel his daughter. Religion can provide some beautiful culture, but I can’t help but think the World would be a better place without belief in gods.
Usually parents are right about that sort of stuff. Kids think that everyone is good, all cultures are ok, and all sorts of bullshit they get taught in school. Parents have life experience and they know what a terrible idea it is to marry someone different then you. He knows that not only if a whole bunch of girls decided to marry no Jewish people, then Jewish traditions will die, but that marrying a Russian guy will be a big problem. They are not as family minded as Jewish men, and they have a worse temper. That the couple will have no family support from either side.....but Chava like a typical braindead teenage girl only thinks OOOO Im in love....
She married outside the faith but he accepted her. This event was no different in my family. My mother is an Orthodox Jew and my father from an Orthodox Catholic family. My grandfather wasn’t too thrilled but my mother married a good man. Still it was a high hurtle for him to jump.
I know everyone assumes that Tzietel and Motel and their son will probably die because their moving to Krakow, Poland, since by the 1940's theyd be grandparents, But theres a point in the dialogue where Tevye says "come to us soon". So its possible that Tzietel and Motel would go to america later on, or at least their sons family will
One of my favorite shots in the movie is the one in which the Constable gazes at the empty Shtetl and the look on his face says, "I wish I didn't have to do this, but it would only get worse for them if they refused to leave. I hope they find new homes soon." No one in this movie is completely good or bad and that shot is a perfect example.
I view it differently. The Constable has to know that many of those old travelers, on the road in winter, will never make it to their destinations. He knows their lives have been uprooted and destroyed, and willing or not, he's been the agent who delivered that message. It's impossible for him not to feel crushing guilt and regret. How much he deserves is another question, of course--as you say, it would have happened with or without him. But it happened with him, and he clearly feels terrible about it.
Especially when he was a friend of Tevye and wanted to spare him due to Chava's marriage to Fyedka. The constable had no other options because he was under the orders of the Tsar to expel the Jews from Anatevka.
@@martineshamzin7535 "Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The outcome might not have changed much. The person who carried it out would have. It's impossible not to feel deep guilt about that, however inevitable you view it.
My interpretation of Tevye saying God be with you, it's not so forgiving as a commandment, like he's saying whatever you guys do, let God be with you. Like asking Chava not to forget about their God. It's also quite late and I should be sleeping ✌
Ashley Miranda I kind of saw it as a final destruction of the traditions that held anatevka and tevye’s life together, his ideas of how life should be have so undermined and in that moment he fully put the love of his daughters over his traditions, the fiddler of the roof has lost balance and fell to the ground. I’m not sure which interpretation I prefer but either way it’s very sad
The ending always gets me sometimes the best stories doesn’t end in a happy way, but at least tevye and his family were not murdered and they left together
The lacerating irony of this ending is that the fiddler plays "Tradition", as if it was part of jewish traditions to migrate from a place to another, due to intolerance and opression against them...
It's something that has happened throughout history so I don't consider it surprising that it's arranged like that. It's one of those traditions that needed to break because NO ONE should be forced out anywhere due to hatred, oppression, etc
@@mariasmith2198 If you'll notice, The fiddler plays tentatively as if to ask"am I still welcome?" Tevia nods to let "tradition" know that yes, he is still welcome! No matter what they go through, tradition, and especially God, will always be welcome in their Jewish home. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
I can't imagine how hard it would be to play the part of the father who refuses, out loud, to say goodby to his daughter. i would have cried through the whole scene
Who reached America - everything was fine. Who left for Poland - they perished in camps. May be Feydka and Hodle did survive because they were christians.
Well, Tevye came to America. So it stands to reason he and Golde did fine. Tzeitel and her family hopefully came there VERY soon. Fedya and Chava went to Poland, so thats not the safest place. Petchek iwent to Siberia. Id be amazed if he survived.
@@Elena02446 Even if they were Christians, it was a rotten place to be. But my family were Polish Jews, and here I sit typing. So anything is possible.
@@martythetickler Whoops, I haven't finished watching the clip (and I saw the movie long ago and didn't remember the lines) when writing this and didn't realize it was just a quote. I was scrolling to delete my reply when you replied to it.😅
@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 That would never happen. Not in a billion, gazillion. Nor should it. Jews have their own religion. In fact if not for their religion, the Christian religion would be impossible. I dont for one second think God would want this.
@@martineshamzin7535 Christianity is the fullfiment of Isrealism. Talmudic Rabbinical Judaism has next to nothing to do with Christianity and the Bible clearly teaches that in the last days 2/3 of Jews will be killed and when the last are about to be wiped out, Jesus will come back and save them and they will accept Him as their Lord and Savior.
"We're going to Krakow." Right, because life was just cupcakes and rainbows for the Jews of Poland. Absolutely no antisemitism whatsoever. I mean, in 1993, Steven Spielberg released a historical movie that accurately documented, in gory details, just how wonderful life was for the Jews of Poland in the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Krakow. Okay, tbf, Fiddler on the Roof takes place in 1909, World War I didn't even happen yet, and the idea of national socialism wouldn't exist for another couple of decades, but antisemitism was still pretty prevalent in Poland long before even a single German boot stepped across its border in 1939.
Yep so antisemitic that they were the first Kingdom to introduce anti- religious-discrimination laws and took in thousands of expelled Jews. Such an evil nation 😔
When you've got limited means, you go where you can. Poland was a just train ride away, where the jewish community there spoke Yiddish. America was a long ocean voyage away and you'd need to learn a whole new language.
Nazis were the ones to commit genocide on Jews in Poland. Some Poles collaborated with them, but there were also underground Polish organisations saving Jews. And it was during world war two, so 34 years after the time in which this movie takes place.
To think that this depicts a time when Americans welcomed those who were poor and oppressed. Thos who spoke other languages, and worshipped other gods. Now the supporters of Trump would rather build walls and shut them out. It is distressing to think how American generosity has withered on the vine.
OtherWorlds AllWorlds I fully agree with the idea of keeping out illegal immigrants, but the Trump administration constantly attempts to keep all immigrants out based on race and religion, not just on their legality. White supremacists are somewhat dishonest when they claim to be doing things for legitimate reasons but the actions on the ground suggest ulterior motives in action. An example of non racist border controls is Australia where they have a navy/coastguard “wall” and detention of illegal boat people on off shore islands, and illegal arrivals by air in mainland detention centers. This policy is often criticized as overly harsh, but claims of racism don’t go anywhere because all restrictions are applied without discrimination, and are only targeted at illegals. Trump, however targets legal immigration as well as illegals. He targets religion and skin color. He makes statements in which he has relatively kind words for racist groups such as Neo-Nazis and Confederates. He has also implemented a program at the border wall of separating children from parents, and other measures that go way beyond the needs of just dealing with illegals. You would appear to have blinkers on as to what Trump is really doing, or maybe it is not important to you, but you are missing the point. Trump’s predecessors were also strong on policing the border and building physical barriers where appropriate. Obama, in particular, was often criticized for harsh border policies, but, like with Australia, his policies were applied without discrimination, and were not accompanied by white supremacist rhetoric, or attempts to exclude all people who are not white and Christian. Perhaps I did not make myself clear, but I was using the word “wall” metaphorically to include all of the means that Trump uses to exclude non-whites, such as the working visa program for tech companies, where the majority of visa holders are Asian, and there appears to be both no problems caused by the visa category, and tech companies are adamant that there are insufficient American born engineers graduating local universities for their needs. The Trump policy makes no sense, unless it is based on the notion that letting in any brown people is to be avoided. By all means support actions against illegals, but also parse the larger picture, and identify the difference between a need for secure borders, and white supremacist policies. There is a difference between the two, and one is being used as a cover to implement the other.
You REALLY have no idea what Trump was all about. Unless your blind you know Americans are poor, and many homeless. Most are not the well off and wealthy as portrayed in all the TV shows and movie, and perhaps you and the people you call friends. "Make America Great Again" meant bringing back full employment and general prosperity, Make America great again for everybody. Today Republicans are multi racial egalitarians. Today Democrats are bigots focused on race. Today Republicans represent the working and small business people of America. Today Democrats represents Billionaires, sexist Feminists, self centered homosexuals, etc. Why do Democrats want 100,000's of people living miserables lives on street sidewalks, living on handouts? Why do Democrats want millions more impoverished, as poor as the homeless but living in miserable ramshackle housing? For forty four years Democrats kept mass immigration and unemployment high. The Democrat Party wanted people kept surplus and cheap. Democrats are responsible for all the misery in the USA.imo. They destroy peoples livelihoods, independence, self respect, and give them food stamps in compensation. Just thought I would mention what your not acknowledging.
@@artistjoh Trump BTW is enforcing laws passed by Congress, not his own. Congress needs to change the laws they made. I'm told I'm a white supremacist- because I wanted to slow immigration, create a tight labor market, and get everybody employed and wages going up. So send the antifa , beat me up. I'd love to take a swipe at those low lives.
I did not like the last scène, the father is more racist than the russians, he says his daughther is dead for marryng a non jew, he actually much more racist than locals.
@@BiednyMisiu He say his daughther is dead for marryng a non jew, he rather to see his daughther dead rather than marryng a non jew thats racists in my book
It's more culture than race that's involved. It wasn't impossible for Jews to convert to Christianity and become more-or-less accepted in mainstream society. Chava herself is proof of that--the Orthodox priest had no qualms about marrying her, because it made her a Christian. But in a very real way, doing that meant Chava was renouncing her parent's whole way of life. What the movie builds up very well is that Tevye's beliefs are deeply woven into his daily routines, his friends, his community. And as we see at times, they're all he has to cling to when the Russians destroy the wedding, smash buildings, or in this case, completely drive them out of town. Tevye has nothing BUT his beliefs, and they give him the strength--and the unity with his fellow Jews--to push on through all this hardship. Those beliefs are literally the only thing keeping Tevye from breaking down in this scene, as he's forced to leave behind everything. It's how he managed to provide for his daughter in the first place. And Chava leaves. To join, in Tevye's mind, the very people who constantly are persecuting him and his friends. And then asks him to give up the very thing that helps him deal with the constant persecution. Everybody has this point. We may say we'd always put family first, or love conquers all, but everyone has a point where they would say "no more." Maybe it would be if the daughter married a Neo-Nazi, or a anti-vaxxer, or something.
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I got super emotional when Tevye said "then God be with you" to Chava because it showed that he was forgiving his daughter / supporting her. Honestly, when I was a little girl, I never completely understood why he acted the way he did. I was angry in my youth and basically like: ' Parents are the worst. ' But now as I have gotten older and talked with my own parents about certain things. I realize Tevye wasn't a bad father, he loved his daughters more then life itself and he did as much as he could even when it wasn't enough. He still managed to go beyond. ; ;
姫パン
I’m playing chava in the musical, and it is very hard to act this out because I can’t understand why, and it’s hard to act a reaction. %100 agree with you.
姫パン It is the horrific reality of religion. One group expels them because their beliefs are different, and within the religion it causes Tevye to expel his daughter. Religion can provide some beautiful culture, but I can’t help but think the World would be a better place without belief in gods.
姫パン Kind of tearing up while reading your comments. Remembered how my mom and I were. I’m my dad’s fav being the only girl. Love them both🙏🙏🙏
Usually parents are right about that sort of stuff. Kids think that everyone is good, all cultures are ok, and all sorts of bullshit they get taught in school. Parents have life experience and they know what a terrible idea it is to marry someone different then you. He knows that not only if a whole bunch of girls decided to marry no Jewish people, then Jewish traditions will die, but that marrying a Russian guy will be a big problem. They are not as family minded as Jewish men, and they have a worse temper. That the couple will have no family support from either side.....but Chava like a typical braindead teenage girl only thinks OOOO Im in love....
She married outside the faith but he accepted her. This event was no different in my family. My mother is an Orthodox Jew and my father from an Orthodox Catholic family. My grandfather wasn’t too thrilled but my mother married a good man. Still it was a high hurtle for him to jump.
Don't think she's gonna forget the baby, but still funny and cute to hear it.
I know everyone assumes that Tzietel and Motel and their son will probably die because their moving to Krakow, Poland, since by the 1940's theyd be grandparents,
But theres a point in the dialogue where Tevye says "come to us soon". So its possible that Tzietel and Motel would go to america later on, or at least their sons family will
One of my favorite shots in the movie is the one in which the Constable gazes at the empty Shtetl and the look on his face says, "I wish I didn't have to do this, but it would only get worse for them if they refused to leave. I hope they find new homes soon." No one in this movie is completely good or bad and that shot is a perfect example.
I view it differently. The Constable has to know that many of those old travelers, on the road in winter, will never make it to their destinations. He knows their lives have been uprooted and destroyed, and willing or not, he's been the agent who delivered that message. It's impossible for him not to feel crushing guilt and regret.
How much he deserves is another question, of course--as you say, it would have happened with or without him. But it happened with him, and he clearly feels terrible about it.
Especially when he was a friend of Tevye and wanted to spare him due to Chava's marriage to Fyedka. The constable had no other options because he was under the orders of the Tsar to expel the Jews from Anatevka.
@@johnkloosterman6277 The vast majority of them will make it. The truth is it would be so much worse if they stayed.
@@martineshamzin7535 "Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me." --Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The outcome might not have changed much. The person who carried it out would have. It's impossible not to feel deep guilt about that, however inevitable you view it.
The “Don’t forget the baby” actually gets a huge laugh in the stage version
The fiddler always makes me tear up at this part, each, and every time.
I always tear up at sunrise sunset because my daughter and I were always so close when she was young
Yeh me too, it symbolise the end of a life and a beginning of a new life. The end of a area and beginning of a new.
"Golda I don't need your advice! Zytal don't forget the baby!"
Tseitel ... and it's Golde ... learn the characters for crying out loud.
kctexan actaully, I’m currently chava in the play, and the correct spelling is Tzeitel
kctexan make me
@@filmstarclipz3427 kind of a year late on this but how'd you do?
I feel really bad for the constable. I think he hated to throw them out but he had no choice.
My interpretation of Tevye saying God be with you, it's not so forgiving as a commandment, like he's saying whatever you guys do, let God be with you. Like asking Chava not to forget about their God. It's also quite late and I should be sleeping ✌
Ashley Miranda I kind of saw it as a final destruction of the traditions that held anatevka and tevye’s life together, his ideas of how life should be have so undermined and in that moment he fully put the love of his daughters over his traditions, the fiddler of the roof has lost balance and fell to the ground. I’m not sure which interpretation I prefer but either way it’s very sad
I’ve never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. I do think it’s both a commandment and the rebuilding of their relationship.
The ending always gets me sometimes the best stories doesn’t end in a happy way, but at least tevye and his family were not murdered and they left together
The lacerating irony of this ending is that the fiddler plays "Tradition", as if it was part of jewish traditions to migrate from a place to another, due to intolerance and opression against them...
I never realized that. Thank you for teaching me something new.
By the way, that's not sarcasm.
It's something that has happened throughout history so I don't consider it surprising that it's arranged like that. It's one of those traditions that needed to break because NO ONE should be forced out anywhere due to hatred, oppression, etc
It is. But that's NOT what the fiddler symbolizes. It symbolizes that the traditions are going with them wherever they go.
@@mariasmith2198 If you'll notice, The fiddler plays tentatively as if to ask"am I still welcome?" Tevia nods to let "tradition" know that yes, he is still welcome! No matter what they go through, tradition, and especially God, will always be welcome in their Jewish home. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
You didn't know where the fiddler went
Feydka has a beautiful voice, --- and that accent!!!
He was played by Italian actor Raymond Lovelock.
8:20 is it just me or did Tevye smile a little bit and start kinda vibing to the music here?
No matter where they go, the memories of home will be with them.
This scene, and the scene where Tevya is putting Hodel on the train to Siberia, has always broken my heart ♡
I can't imagine how hard it would be to play the part of the father who refuses, out loud, to say goodby to his daughter. i would have cried through the whole scene
did you ever wish you knew what happened to all of them once they left? I did
jennifur sun according to Shlom Rabinowitz book,
Golda die from hart break and Hava return along to her family
Who reached America - everything was fine. Who left for Poland - they perished in camps. May be Feydka and Hodle did survive because they were christians.
Well the ones who left for Poland were most likely killed in the Holocaust.
Well, Tevye came to America. So it stands to reason he and Golde did fine. Tzeitel and her family hopefully came there VERY soon. Fedya and Chava went to Poland, so thats not the safest place. Petchek iwent to Siberia. Id be amazed if he survived.
@@Elena02446 Even if they were Christians, it was a rotten place to be. But my family were Polish Jews, and here I sit typing. So anything is possible.
"We'll be staying with uncle Avram, WE'LL BE STAYING WITH UNCLE AVRAM!! THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO KNOW OUR BUSINESS!!!"
I mean, she wants her daughter to have a possibility to contact them
@@meridaskywalker7816 obviously. I just think that line is funny.
@@martythetickler Whoops, I haven't finished watching the clip (and I saw the movie long ago and didn't remember the lines) when writing this and didn't realize it was just a quote. I was scrolling to delete my reply when you replied to it.😅
Stop yelling and finish packing! We have a long way to go
@@samirsedky3324 GOLDE, I DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE!!! Tzeitl, don't forget the baby!
Love the exchanged of ideas by those who replied to comments below!
I feel for Chava. She shouldn't be punished for choosing love. Love her hubby's voice!
Someone should have given him the gospel instead of treating them so bad maybe he would've accepted Christ.
@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 That would never happen. Not in a billion, gazillion. Nor should it. Jews have their own religion. In fact if not for their religion, the Christian religion would be impossible. I dont for one second think God would want this.
@@martineshamzin7535 Christianity is the fullfiment of Isrealism. Talmudic Rabbinical Judaism has next to nothing to do with Christianity and the Bible clearly teaches that in the last days 2/3 of Jews will be killed and when the last are about to be wiped out, Jesus will come back and save them and they will accept Him as their Lord and Savior.
We'll be staying with Uncle Avram. We'll be staying with Uncle Avram! THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TO KNOW OUR BUSINESS!!!!!
Stop yelling and finish packing! We have a long way to go
@@samirsedky3324 GOLDE, I DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE!! Tzeitl, don't forget the baby!
My Russian family settled in Kiev and Krakow and ended up in Auschwitz some of them. So so sad.
Truly Terrible!
Ukraine cooperated with Nazis. Poland at least fought.
5:47 I become emotionally drained after watching this!
"We're going to Krakow." Right, because life was just cupcakes and rainbows for the Jews of Poland. Absolutely no antisemitism whatsoever. I mean, in 1993, Steven Spielberg released a historical movie that accurately documented, in gory details, just how wonderful life was for the Jews of Poland in the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Krakow. Okay, tbf, Fiddler on the Roof takes place in 1909, World War I didn't even happen yet, and the idea of national socialism wouldn't exist for another couple of decades, but antisemitism was still pretty prevalent in Poland long before even a single German boot stepped across its border in 1939.
Yep so antisemitic that they were the first Kingdom to introduce anti- religious-discrimination laws and took in thousands of expelled Jews. Such an evil nation 😔
For all we know they moved away too, and went to visit Uncle Avram in NYC, USA.
When you've got limited means, you go where you can. Poland was a just train ride away, where the jewish community there spoke Yiddish. America was a long ocean voyage away and you'd need to learn a whole new language.
Nazis were the ones to commit genocide on Jews in Poland. Some Poles collaborated with them, but there were also underground Polish organisations saving Jews. And it was during world war two, so 34 years after the time in which this movie takes place.
@@jetfowl And that's kind of the point right? Driven from one place to the other, pogroms, edicts, wars.
To think that this depicts a time when Americans welcomed those who were poor and oppressed. Thos who spoke other languages, and worshipped other gods. Now the supporters of Trump would rather build walls and shut them out. It is distressing to think how American generosity has withered on the vine.
Even Asgrimplass thank you for saying this. Needs to be said more.
T. An ameriburger, myself.
OtherWorlds AllWorlds I fully agree with the idea of keeping out illegal immigrants, but the Trump administration constantly attempts to keep all immigrants out based on race and religion, not just on their legality. White supremacists are somewhat dishonest when they claim to be doing things for legitimate reasons but the actions on the ground suggest ulterior motives in action. An example of non racist border controls is Australia where they have a navy/coastguard “wall” and detention of illegal boat people on off shore islands, and illegal arrivals by air in mainland detention centers. This policy is often criticized as overly harsh, but claims of racism don’t go anywhere because all restrictions are applied without discrimination, and are only targeted at illegals.
Trump, however targets legal immigration as well as illegals. He targets religion and skin color. He makes statements in which he has relatively kind words for racist groups such as Neo-Nazis and Confederates. He has also implemented a program at the border wall of separating children from parents, and other measures that go way beyond the needs of just dealing with illegals. You would appear to have blinkers on as to what Trump is really doing, or maybe it is not important to you, but you are missing the point. Trump’s predecessors were also strong on policing the border and building physical barriers where appropriate. Obama, in particular, was often criticized for harsh border policies, but, like with Australia, his policies were applied without discrimination, and were not accompanied by white supremacist rhetoric, or attempts to exclude all people who are not white and Christian.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear, but I was using the word “wall” metaphorically to include all of the means that Trump uses to exclude non-whites, such as the working visa program for tech companies, where the majority of visa holders are Asian, and there appears to be both no problems caused by the visa category, and tech companies are adamant that there are insufficient American born engineers graduating local universities for their needs. The Trump policy makes no sense, unless it is based on the notion that letting in any brown people is to be avoided.
By all means support actions against illegals, but also parse the larger picture, and identify the difference between a need for secure borders, and white supremacist policies. There is a difference between the two, and one is being used as a cover to implement the other.
You REALLY have no idea what Trump was all about. Unless your blind you know Americans are poor, and many homeless. Most are not the well off and wealthy as portrayed in all the TV shows and movie, and perhaps you and the people you call friends.
"Make America Great Again" meant bringing back full employment and general prosperity, Make America great again for everybody.
Today Republicans are multi racial egalitarians.
Today Democrats are bigots focused on race.
Today Republicans represent the working and small business people of America.
Today Democrats represents Billionaires, sexist Feminists, self centered homosexuals, etc.
Why do Democrats want 100,000's of people living miserables lives on street sidewalks, living on handouts? Why do Democrats want millions more impoverished, as poor as the homeless but living in miserable ramshackle housing? For forty four years Democrats kept mass immigration and unemployment high. The Democrat Party wanted people kept surplus and cheap. Democrats are responsible for all the misery in the USA.imo. They destroy peoples livelihoods, independence, self respect, and give them food stamps in compensation. Just thought I would mention what your not acknowledging.
@@artistjoh Trump BTW is enforcing laws passed by Congress, not his own. Congress needs to change the laws they made. I'm told I'm a white supremacist- because I wanted to slow immigration, create a tight labor market, and get everybody employed and wages going up.
So send the antifa , beat me up. I'd love to take a swipe at those low lives.
I did not like the last scène, the father is more racist than the russians, he says his daughther is dead for marryng a non jew, he actually much more racist than locals.
That's not racist. First learn what "racism" means. And not, you don't understand this movie at all.
@@BiednyMisiu He say his daughther is dead for marryng a non jew, he rather to see his daughther dead rather than marryng a non jew thats racists in my book
It's more culture than race that's involved. It wasn't impossible for Jews to convert to Christianity and become more-or-less accepted in mainstream society. Chava herself is proof of that--the Orthodox priest had no qualms about marrying her, because it made her a Christian. But in a very real way, doing that meant Chava was renouncing her parent's whole way of life.
What the movie builds up very well is that Tevye's beliefs are deeply woven into his daily routines, his friends, his community. And as we see at times, they're all he has to cling to when the Russians destroy the wedding, smash buildings, or in this case, completely drive them out of town. Tevye has nothing BUT his beliefs, and they give him the strength--and the unity with his fellow Jews--to push on through all this hardship. Those beliefs are literally the only thing keeping Tevye from breaking down in this scene, as he's forced to leave behind everything. It's how he managed to provide for his daughter in the first place.
And Chava leaves. To join, in Tevye's mind, the very people who constantly are persecuting him and his friends. And then asks him to give up the very thing that helps him deal with the constant persecution.
Everybody has this point. We may say we'd always put family first, or love conquers all, but everyone has a point where they would say "no more." Maybe it would be if the daughter married a Neo-Nazi, or a anti-vaxxer, or something.
@@johnkloosterman6277 yeh you are right very true What you say
John Kloosterman So enlightened by your comments, intellectually and more so, emotionally! Thanks!