Sunday, July 24, 2022

each one is different

29:51 "The Charedi world has a shita, my way or the highway. This to me goes against the very grain of what Torah is about. Open up any Gemara, the minute you begin ,מֵאֵימָתַי קוֹרִין אֶת שְׁמַע בָּעֲרָבִין    three different opinions, everything has machlochet.... open up a midrash, open up a bereshis rabbah, shemot rabbah, etc. halachic midrash, so many different opinions, and outside of halacha, ....but hashkafa, philosophy, we leave very wide, each one is different, each one sees things differently, times are different, the trumpet is different, that's chinuch. i never in 62 years of teaching try to force my own thinking upon a student." Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/969741/rabbi-dr-aaron-rakeffet-rothkoff/hesped-for-rabbi-adin-steinsaltz/

He continues, I paraphrase  -- The Charedi world has a problem. They were never able to understand  Adin Steinsoltz. To say like they did in Ponovich that there was apikorsis, I went through every page and there is not a word of that. The Manalist newspapers didn't even mention his name when he passed away, a man who changed history. That to me is a tragic mistake. 

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