It would be most perverse and criminal of us to seek to instill in our children a contempt, based on ignorance and untruth, for everything that is not specifically Jewish, for all other human arts and sciences, in the belief that by inculcating our children with such a negative attitude we could safeguard them from contacts with the scholarly and scientific endeavors of the rest of mankind…You will then see that your simple-minded calculations were just as criminal as they were perverse. Criminal, because they enlisted the help of untruth supposedly in order to protect the truth, and because you have thus departed from the path upon which your own Sages have preceded you and beckoned you to follow them. Perverse, because by so doing you have achieved precisely the opposite of what you wanted to accomplish…Your child will consequently begin to doubt all of Judaism which (so, at least, it must seem to him from your behavior) can exist only in the night and darkness of ignorance and which must close its eyes and the minds of its adherents to the light of all knowledge if it is not to perish (Collected Writings 7: 415-6).
RSRH's approach is truly what the MO approach should be. Many MO mistakenly believe he was a founder of MO. Unfortunately there's is little place in the world for him today. The UO has revised his history, claiming TIDE was a one generation concession that he would oppose today and the MO would find austritt a bit strict for their liking
ReplyDeleteWhat is austritt? For rav shach , everything is assur, but also permitted through the backdoor.
ReplyDeleteWhat if MO ceases to exist, then the hareidim will find someone else to demonize. Except that MO still exists and they are demonizing themselves, in ponovezh. In brisk, (RE ponovezh), in meah shearim there are 100 factions. In satmar they have civil war and arkaos.
And sometimes the hareidim achieve only Darwin Awards, by choosing martyrdom rather than saving lives.
Lamm's son became close to satmar, and broke the in the process, serving time.
ReplyDeleteBut geneiva, is not a real issur in the chareidi world.
Why not Ramban ot Ralbag or Ramban model?
ReplyDeleteBe a gadol hador and also a professor of astronomy, philosophy, medicine, etc.