https://jewishaction.com/cover-story/the-case-for-a-traditional-approach-in-the-study-of-tanach/
RDB: I’m curious about some of your influences outside of the
canon of Rishonim and Acharonim that appear in Mikraos Gedolos. Were
there any Chassidic thinkers who influenced your approach to Tanach?
RNS: Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr, the Sefas Emes [Rabbi
Yehudah Leib Alter], and Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen all had an influence. If
you read the overviews [in the ArtScroll translations], you’ll see that
there’s a heavy combination of mussar and chassidus that we incorporate into our commentary and that form our worldview.
Artscroll is very clear on its position - it will only use "kosher" sources for its commentaries. Anything not acceptable to the Chareidi leadership will be excluded. Even the Stone Chumash only included the Rav, zt"l, because the donors insisted they do. Otherwise he would have been ignored, just like Rav Kook, ztk"l.
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ReplyDeleteSo policy is influenced by donors. Yeshivas are built on donors. So that means the rabbis are influenced, Eg the donors are anti modern.
That is how rabbi Cardozo was forced out of ohr sameach yeshiva. Back then he was still hareidi.
"Reb Yaakov once said in a shmuess in Torah Vodaas, when I was a bachur learning there, that Tanach study was de-emphasized in the yeshivos since the Maskilim emphasized the study of Tanach (Ben-Gurion, for example, knew Tanach very well and quoted from it extensively). The Maskilim learned Tanach exclusively, but not as believers; they studied it as Jewish literature."
ReplyDeleteBen gurion, contrary to what his haters claim, believed in G-d and the Torah. He was essentially a Tanakh only believer, although not necessarily frum in practice.
He was not an atheist.
https://reeliclite.tk
ReplyDeleteWow so that means we should celebrate his yahrzeit or that he was a Jewish role model?
ReplyDeleteit means, that if he was a believing Jew, who accepted the Torah, even if he was not fully practicing, it is wrong to call him an atheist or bible critic.
ReplyDeleteSo you think he was a believing Jew -what is your evidence? Or is your goal that he wasn't an atheist. But even an idolator is not an atheist.
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Ben-Gurion described himself as an irreligious person who developed atheism
in his youth and who demonstrated no great sympathy for the elements of
traditional Judaism, though he quoted the Bible extensively in his
speeches and writings.[93] Modern Orthodox philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz considered Ben-Gurion "to have hated Judaism more than any other man he had met".[94] He was proud of the fact that he had only set foot in a synagogue once in Israel,[95] worked on Yom Kippur and ate pork.[55]
In later time, Ben-Gurion refused to define himself as "secular", and
he regarded himself a believer in God. In a 1970 interview, he described
himself as a pantheist, and stated that "I don't know if there's an afterlife. I think there is."[96] During an interview with the leftist weekly Hotam
two years before his death, he revealed, "I too have a deep faith in
the Almighty. I believe in one God, the omnipotent Creator. My
consciousness is aware of the existence of material and spirit ... [But]
I cannot understand how order reigns in nature, in the world and
universe – unless there exists a superior force. This supreme Creator is
beyond my comprehension . . . but it directs everything."[97]
In a letter to the writer Eliezer Steinman, he wrote "Today, more
than ever, the 'religious' tend to relegate Judaism to observing
dietary laws and preserving the Sabbath. This is considered religious
reform. I prefer the Fifteenth Psalm, lovely are the psalms of Israel.
The Shulchan Aruch is a product of our nation's life in the Exile. It
was produced in the Exile, in conditions of Exile. A nation in the
process of fulfilling its every task, physically and spiritually ...
must compose a 'New Shulchan'--and our nation's intellectuals are
required, in my opinion, to fulfill their responsibility in this."[97]w
So he is a Baal teshuva. How do you know if his reward is less than yours, as you were ffb?
ReplyDeleteHe obviously was not a baal tshuva nor was he viewed as such.
ReplyDeleteNot completely -
ReplyDeleteFrom atheist to believer , is good.
Not a gadol .
He was perhaps unaware of the Aruch hashulchan haAtid.
ReplyDeleteSome kings in the tanach turned away from idolatry, but didn't do 100% teshuva,. They received some praise.
ReplyDeleteSo what!
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