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The Torah study is dedicatedin the memory of
Asher Ben Chaim
In response to this report, popular media analysts focused their attention, as usual, upon irrelevant factors. For the most part, they opted to blame the impending cuts in the education budget rather than make an effort to get to the roots of the problem. For one thing, cuts have not yet taken effect, while the results of this study reflected last years developments; furthermore, the education budget in Israel is comparatively higher than those in most Western countries.
The truth of the matter is that the problem is a social-ideological one, and not connected to Israel’s spending budget.
For generations upon generations, the Jewish people have given scholarship precedence above all else. The scholar was considered the most honored individual in society. The wealthy considered it a privilege to have their daughters marry scholars. Jewish education was never based upon schoolwork alone; it was first and foremost a family affair - the Jewish family has traditionally related to scholarship as the most important of values. Even non-observant Jewry, during its first and second generations, continued to relate to study with honor. Yet, now, in the third generation, things have changed.
When the life objective becomes going out on the town, buy clothing, traveling abroad, gourmet restaurants, dancing all night, and returning drunk in the early hours of the morning, it should come as no surprise that the majority of our youth prefer television, movies, drinking, dancing, partying, and unbridled freedom over study.
Parents who lead a life of freedom and irresponsibility, expressing themselves in vulgar language and adorning themselves in immodest clothing, chain-smoking, drinking beer and coffee, and wasting their time with self-centered leisure and all sorts of nonsense, should not expect their child to turn out modest, honest, educated, and intelligent. The child merely imitates his parents. Adults who are insolent towards those who are better and wiser than they and laugh at jokes which desecrate all that is treasured and sacred, are later shocked that their children are disrespectful toward them and their teachers and are unwilling to accept authority. They do not hesitate to blame the government for not investing enough money in "education."
In the past, Torah teachers were poor. The children would gather in the teacher’s house and he would educate them from morning until night. This "classroom" also served as the bedroom, kitchen, and living room of the teacher’s family. In the center of the room the children sat and studied Torah, and on the side, the teacher’s wife would sew, cook, and take care of the small children. Sometimes even the goat and rooster would come inside the very same room in order to warm themselves and eat the scraps of leftover food....In the midst of all this, Jewish children studied Torah and grew to become learned, pious, and gentle Jews. Though they lacked adequate formal conditions, they possessed respect for scholarship.
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The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
Chukat "HOW ENTEBBE STOLE THE BICENTENNIAL
The Difference Between Historic & Eternal"
As we approach America's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering her 200th Bicentennial birthday, on Jul. 4th 1976, when Israel "stole the show" by shocking the world & miraculously saving 101 hostages in a foreign continent. As Pres. As Pres. Trump decides which countries get priority in his new Middle-East, it's worth reminding him of the difference between historic events and eternally historic ones. This obviously connects with this week's parsha, as well!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 6 - The Parable of the King of India
The advantages of testimony over circumstantial evidence or philosophical speculation.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
