How the Harediban Think
The Gedoylim Offer Salvation!
One of the many things not taught either in liberal Judaism or Modern “Orthodoxy” (Remember! A little Torah is sometimes worse than no Torah!) is to trust the Great Ones to protect you from spiritually damaging information. This is a popular concept in right-wing ultra-Orthodoxy. So popular, in fact, that a post on this very subject is touted as the most popular editorial ever online for the haredi Dei’ah V’ Dibur, which has strong ties apparently to the Israeli Yated Ne’eman.
In “Why We Censor,” DVD notes,
Yet the spirit of the Western world, in its media, in its science, in its art, in its politics, is a challenge to the authentic Torah spirit from the floor to the rafters.
Learn this. It says it all. This is the Harediban mentality.
What is their solution?
FOLLOW THE GEDOYLIM!
Whoever wants to, is free to go it alone. He or she can plunge in to the treacherous waters of the modern world alone, and try to reach the truth heroically alone. It is a big task for an individual.
The rest of us will take shelter under the banner of gedolei Yisroel. As in the generation of Chanukah, so too in our generation — the gedolei veziknei hador cry out to us all: Mi laSheim eilai!
Whoever wants to reach Hashem should join them!
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“Yet the spirit of the Western world, in its media, in its science, in its art, in its politics, is a challenge to the authentic Torah spirit from the floor to the rafters.”
Only if the authentic Torah spirit is about science and fact and not faith and spirituality, and if it is, its gonna lose and lose big.
Yet again, the keepers of the flame keep putting it too close to the dry flammable parchments again.
“Only if the authentic Torah spirit is about science and fact and not faith and spirituality”
Good point.
Silly me. I thought “The Great One ” was Jackie Gleason , alav hashalom. “And aWAY we GO!”
“Harediban”? Good one! Do you mind if I use it sometime? With credit to The Kvetcher, of course.
By all means!
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