Jews: What was the real supposed moral lesson to be learned from Fiddler On The Roof?

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I had to watch this once in HS for reasons.

So now I rewatch it as an adult and it seems to be anti-commie because some of the daughters run off with commies (who seem to be goy or am I confused?) or what is the actual lesson here?
 
God still hasn't forgiven you. Don't get too comfy. He's going to evict you soon enough for your ancestors' crimes. Only by denouncing your Jewishness and living amongst the Goyim can you escape his eternal wrath.
 
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That scene where he walks his daughter to the train, so she can travel across the country to look after her dickhead commie husband whose ended up in jail, is genuinely moving.

He knows he's never going to see his daughter again, and probably realises that the husband (who he warned her to stay away from) is too dumb to live.

I imagine a certain audience watched it and realised he was losing his daughter, all because he took pity on some itenerant commie, who didn't feel bound by any bourgeois notions such as not taking advantage of the daughter of the man whose saved you life.

There is a kind of subversive idea within the film, that the daughter who marries the gentile makes the better match.
 
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The moral lesson is basically where do you draw the line between something you love but can destroy you, ie like playing the fiddle while risking falling to your death. The successive matches are something the protagonist wants to accept but has trouble because they are dangerous: the first one is financially dangerous, the second is politically dangerous and the third is religously dangerous. In the end the guy drew the line in the third one. It's kind of a modern take on Job, with the main characters constantly having bad things happen but still keeping on believing.

It's not necessarily a Jew thing, but the taboo against marrying outside the religion is way stronger there.
 
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The plotline centers around the messes Tevye gets into from his daughters. He has to compromise on everything, and in the end he basically loses two of them, one of them is stuck in Poland indefinitely, and he still has two more to go through. *hits pipe* Ahem. Is having daughters the ultimate cuckoldry?
 
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The plotline centers around the messes Tevye gets into from his daughters. He has to compromise on everything, and in the end he basically loses two of them, one of them is stuck in Poland indefinitely, and he still has two more to go through. *hits pipe* Ahem. Is having daughters the ultimate cuckoldry?
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Pretty much yes.
 
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