History Heartwarming / FiddlerOnTheRoof

** In the movie, Tevye's Sheer joy in saying "Then you love me!" in a playful 'gotcha'. He's so happy that he was able to make her love him, and he makes sure to tell her he loves her too.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hszJv-P2yNE film version]] absolutely ''makes'' this song. Rosalind Harris, playing Tzeitel, doesn't have a word of dialogue the entire scene. And yet, while Motel is dancing around the forest like a giddy goofball, she never takes her eyes off him, and she's ''beaming'' the entire time. It's plain to anyone's eyes that she's bubbling up with just as much joy as her fiance - she looks like she's ''drunk'' on him, like her entire existence revolves around him, like she couldn't possibly ever be any happier than she is right at that very moment. It feels like the joy blazing between them should have burned the entire forest to the ground.

* Meta example: At his wedding, Creator/LinManuelMiranda and his father-in-law surprised the bride with a seemingly impromptu performance of "L'Chaim," with nearly the entire wedding party joining in by the end. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZ4ZTTfKO8 Just watch the expressions on Vanessa's face.]]

* On a meta-level, {{Defictionalization}} of Anatevka. It was a fictional shtetl in Ukraine, but come Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and it became [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatevka_(village) a real settlement for internally displaced people]] organized by Jewish diaspora, where Jews and Gentiles can peacefully live together - just as they did in fictional Anatevka before the events of the ''Fiddler on the Roof''.

* In 2011, when LGBT marriage was first legalized in the United States, an interfaith minister asked the original lyricist Sheldon Harnick if he would be willing to update the words of "Sunrise, Sunset" to make it [[https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9A05EEDD1530F935A35753C1A9679D8B63.html more suitable to sing at same-sex weddings]]. Harnick promptly produced two alternate versions adjusted for same-gender pronouns, saying he was delighted that any couples can share in the emotional moment of the song whatever their orientation might be. (Composer Jerry Bock had already passed away, but his estate gave their approval to the new versions as well, saying he would have been similarly touched at the request.)

* In 2011, when LGBT marriage was first legalized in the United States, an interfaith minister asked the original lyricist Sheldon Harnick if he would be willing to update the words of "Sunrise, Sunset" to make it [[https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9A05EEDD1530F935A35753C1A9679D8B63.html more suitable to sing at same-sex weddings]]. Harnick promptly produced two alternate versions with same-gender pronouns, saying he was delighted that any couples can share in the emotional moment of the song whatever their orientation might be. (Composer Jerry Bock had already passed away, but his estate gave their approval to the new versions as well, saying he would have been similarly touched at the request.)

* In 2011, when LGBT marriage was first legalized in the United States, an interfaith minister asked the original lyricist Sheldon Harnick if he would be willing to update the words of "Sunrise, Sunset" to make it [[https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9A05EEDD1530F935A35753C1A9679D8B63.html more suitable to sing at same-sex weddings]]. Harnick promptly produced two alternate versions with same-gender pronouns, saying he was delighted that any couples can share in the emotional moment of the song whatever their orientation might be.

* Fyedka standing up for Chava, when she's being harassed by a gang of anti-Semitic jerkasses. Plus, he genuinely takes a liking to her (and vice-versa), despite the differences in their religious backgrounds, and he offers to buy her a book- knowing how much she loves to read.

--> ''Just look at my daughter's eyes/she loves him/she wants him...''

-->'''Tevye:''' "Anyway, Tzeitel and Motel are married now. Almost two months. They work very hard, they are as poor as squirrels in winter. But they are both so happy, they don't know how miserable they are."