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[Last time, in introducing a yeshiva focusing on agricultural halacha, Rav Yisraeli discussed how yeshivot in a time when people must prepare for their occupations need to adapt to this challenge, and how this was developing slowly.] The fracture between the street and the yeshiva continually grew. The street required action, alertness, and pioneering. The yeshiva became increasingly insular. It demanded of its students to ignore the world and lifestyle of the Jewish street. It demanded tremendous dedication to the extent of forgetting one’s personal nature and the interests of the general community. The yeshiva stopped being an institution for the masses. It became a private domain for individuals whose intention was to dedicate all of their life to Torah. The life of the general population flowed outside the yeshiva, which stopped being a factor in public and social life. Most of the fathers who were interested in practicality did not send their sons to yeshiva, and adolescents who grew up without Torah study were swept up by the movements that are foreign to the spirit of Israel. The building of the land of these young men was an essential part of the undoing of the desired building. Then, the movement of “Torah VaAvoda” was established. Those who joined it did not all get to that point in a “straight line.” Every member came to it through his own personal “revolution,” with hesitations and jumps. His being was caught in between the yeshiva and the street, and only after many struggles did he find the synthesis and unification of “Torah and Avoda.” However, very few who found their way to this path after wandering, did so with perfection and harmony. Most became lost along the way, and were swept away to “foreign encampments.” Within the camp, things were also not in full order. At times, the internal battle left a member with an imprint of a subdued spirit; sometimes it caused him incorrect concepts and an unhealthy mixing of myriad thoughts, which are difficult to repair. This brings us to a very troubling question: what should the approach to education be for the strictly religious Jewish community? Is it possible to suffice with the limited and disjointed Torah knowledge that children receive from the general education schools and consider this a good solution?! Could this produce the generation we have prayed for? Can they create the spiritual reawakening in the Land by reawakening Judaism’s physical side?! Perhaps it will be necessary to return the young men to the yeshivot, at least the organized among our group. Then our movement will continue to be fed by chance as a result of revolutionary thinkers who came to us through deeply personal doubts! Will the young generation listen to us on this matter? The only and most fundamental solution to this question is to create a new model of a yeshiva – the agricultural yeshiva. This institution, when at its best, must serve the function that the yeshiva did in their previous life – a general home of education for the young generation. The job of this institution will be to educate a youngster and prepare him to fulfill a wonderful role that is awaiting him – building the nation in the material and spiritual sense. The yeshiva will be built on two foundations – study and action. It will give a broad experience during the time they are there. It will be a “youth settlement,” which will open for them a life of independence immersed in a spirit of Torah and fear of Heaven. The curriculum will be mainly tractates of Talmud Bavli, or parts of them, which relate to practical Halacha. The approach to the study will be to understand deeply and straightforwardly, along with clarifying the words of the early commentators in a manner that is in step with accepted halachic positions. We will finish the address next week.
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