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Not YESHIVA WORLD TABERNACLE so the yeshivos. Students were expect­ ed to master the functional disciplines s everyone knows, the yeshiva To a great extent, the difficulties fac­ on their own. The heart and soul of yeshi­ world is undergoing very diffi­ ing the yeshiva world are the products va life was the study and analysis of A cult times. Many of the ills that of its astonishing success. Rabbi Gemara and its com1nentators. 1~hat is pervade society around us have found Yitzchok Hutner ., .. ,,,, noted that the Torah what occupied the bulk of a student's their way- albeit on a much smaller scale deals with the construction of two very time, energy, and interest. The shiurin1 - into our homes and institutions, and different edifices. One is the ark of Noach, (lectures) were geared accordingly, chal­ the results are catastrophic. which was built as a sanctuary for sur­ lenging them to ever higher levels of aca­ People often focus on specific aspects vival. The other is the Mishkan - the tab­ demic excellence. The schedule, too, was of the problem, dwelling on who is to ernacle erected by the Jewish nation in extremely rigorous. Intensive Torah blame for a particular issue and how it order to "house" the Divine Presence. study filled nearly every waking could be resolved if only this or that were The great bastions of Torah that illu­ moment. done differently. But such approaches minated European Jewry for generations take things out of context, for they ignore were modeled after the Mishkan. The the general framework in which all of foundation upon which they were erect­ FACING THE CHALLENGES these problems exist. The truth is that ed is the loftiest of all human endeav­ the difficult conditions we face are ors, Torah lishma - the study of Torah Today's yeshivos are the successors to integral to the times in which we live. for its own sake. These institutions were their European counterparts. Their core Current circumstances virtually guaran­ designed primarily to serve the elite, to function continues to be the noble enter­ tee an ongoing wave of crises and con­ mold a select few into the Torah lead­ prise of Torah lishma, and their primary flicts. They are not grounds for ers of the next generation.
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