: Desperate to keep Hadass close to him, Avigdor convinces his "best friend" Anshel to marry Hadass in his place. In a bizarre twist of fate, Yentl enters into a marriage with Hadass that is never consummated, during which she begins secretly teaching Hadass the Talmud. Resolution and Departure
In 1904 Eastern Europe, a young Ashkenazi Jewish woman named Yentl Mendel (Barbra Streisand) defies the strict social and religious codes of her Polish shtetl. While women are forbidden from studying sacred texts, Yentl harbors a deep passion for the Talmud and Torah, which she secretly studies under her father’s guidance. The Transformation Yentl(1983)
The tension of maintaining a dual life eventually becomes unbearable. Yentl reveals her true identity to a stunned Avigdor, showing him that she is the woman he has grown to love as a "friend". Although Avigdor asks her to marry him as a woman, Yentl realizes that doing so would force her back into the very submissive role she sought to escape. Yentl 1983 Cut Scenes, Musical Numbers, Unreleased : Desperate to keep Hadass close to him,