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Kol Hamevaser Vol 1. Issue 4 12 07.Pdf (7.936Mb) Kol Hamevaser LHAMEVASER CONTENTS The Jewish Thought Magazine VOLUME I, ISSUE 4 of the Yeshiva University Student Body DECEMBER 18, 2007 Gilah Kletenik 3 Open and Skeptical? Chayim Goldberg 3 Letter to the Editor STAFF Simcha Gross 3 Shiur Reconsiderd Tiffy Unterman 4 "For Every Atom That Belongs to Me as Good Belongs to You" Managing Editors Noah Cheses 5 How Do We Relate to Difference? Mattan Erder Rabbi Shmuel Hain 6 Beni Bekhori Yisrael Gilah Kletenik David Lasher Ayol Samuels 8 Jews and Christians Aliza Hausman 9 Why are They So Weird? Associate Editor Jackie Fast 10 Rahim Meyad Meatim Sefi Lerner .,. '. Ari Lamm 11 An Interview with Rabbi J. David Bleich Staff Writers Chava Chaitovsky Erik Livak-Dahl 13 Open Letter from A God-Fearer Noah Cheses Shimshon Ayzenberg 14 Notes From the Underground TikvaHecht AlexOzar 16 An Interview with AlexOzar Rabbi Dr. David Berger Ayol Samuels Yaakov Bitton 18 Choosing to Be Jewish Shira Schwartz Rabbi_Aryeh Klapper 19 Is There A Mitzvah to Prevent Genocide? Interviewer Ari Lamm Shira Schwartz 21 Messianism at the Dead Sea Ari Bernstein 22 First Contact Art and Layout Editor Ami Friedman 25 Book Review of The Israel Lobby Avi Feld ' ABOUT KOL HAMEVASER WE WANT To HEAR· KOL HAMEVASER IS A MAGAZINE OF JEWISH THOUGHT DEDICATED TO SPARK· ING THE DISCUSSION OF JEWISH ISSUES ON THE YESHIVA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. IT WILL SERVE AS A FORUM FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF WHAT You THINK! NEW IDEAS. 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COMING SOON: 21 ST CENTURY TORAH U-MADDAH 2 ======================================================vnlnm~ 1 kmP A Nation Unto Itself? this sense of expectation before Shiur, at its Continuine Tlie conclusion, we are almost invariably confronted with an entirely different sensation - confusion. 'Discussion Questions like "What was that last point Rebbe Tditoria{ made?", "where was he going with that?" and To the Editor: "what was that source he quoted?" reverberate around the room. The talmid knows what this I agree with Jaimie Fogel 's praise of the means; an hour of the Yeshiva bocher s bread so-called "New School" of Orthodox Bible and butter - Chazara! Open and Skeptical? We have become so acclimated to this rou­ study, as R. Etshalom titles it. My own expe­ tine that it so!&how seems almost sacrilegious rience in Israel was deeply impacted by the in­ to question it. However, perhaps it is time that BY GILAH KLETENIK a reality wherein there is seldgm an opportu­ fluence of Rabbi Menachem Leibtag. we question the utility of this exercise. Why nity for profound interaction with anyone out­ Serious Bible study, particularly in the quest the need for confusion, and the hours ofrepeti­ I sat there nervously stirring the ice cubes side of our comfortable da/et amot. But, for learning p shat and being able to identify tive review, to grasp a one to two hour shiur? of my now almost empty cup of iced tea. I did­ perhaps most egregious of all, even more than and separate influence of Midrash, is some­ This question is sharpened by the stark this because, well, it was too awkward to look hiding the truth and even hiding ourselves, is thing that is long overdue. Thankfully, this is contrast between the experience we undergo my Indian friend straight in the face. Some­ that we hide from ourselves - that, by living being spread amongst American Jewry with during shiur and our secular classes. Most sec­ how, on this humid Washington DC evening this way, we deprive ourselves of our inde­ the rising number of students who spend a year ular classes do not leave the student flustered our conversation had turned to the topic of pendence and insult our intellect. or two in Israel and are exposed to the leading and perplexed, and as a result do not require a kashnit. But, that wasn't really the cause of I now understand that I wanted to hide the figures of this revival. The only shame is that serious review of the material after each and my discomfort. I was more than willing to an­ truth about stam yenam from my friend be­ students have to wait until after high school to every class. What underlies this difference? swer his questions about kashnit, even the un­ cause part of me felt insecure about it, even a finally be exposed to serious Bible study, The difference, I believe, stems from our comfortable one about why I couldn't eat in his little unsure about it. Perhaps, then, we as Or­ which hopefully will no longer be the case as contrasting pedagogical expectations of profes­ house, despite the strict vegetarian nature of his thodox Jews cling to our sheltered lives be­ those who have studied in Israel begin to dom­ sors versus rebbeim. A professor is expected to kitchen. In fact, he kind of appreciated my ex­ cause we as a community are insecure; we're inate American chinuch in Modem Orthodox address his class at its level; in contrast, planations about self-restraint and doing some­ afraid of what might happen ifwe actually en­ (and hopefully all Orthodox) day schools. talmidim are expected to follow a rebbi at his thing simply because God commands it. But gage with the outside world. we· do this be­ I would just like to elaborate on a point level. The classroom dynamic is thus com­ the conversation quickly turned when he asked cause we don't own our beliefs; we lack the that Jaimie made. I feel that the term "New pletely inverted. full assurance in our halakhic system to engage about drinking wine that doesn't have a kosher School" is a misnomer because, as Jaimie These contrasting expectations produce all symbol on it. I didn't quite know how to re­ ourselves with the world around us. We don't . pointed out, serious Bible study by Orthodox sorts of undesirable results in a typical shiur. spond, and not because these halakhot had sud­ question our beliefs nor do we challenge them. scholars has been conducted in modem times For example, rebbeim need not follow basic denly escaped me. Rather, it was because even Rather, we accept them because we have for over a century, starting with figures such as teaching protocol. Keeping the talmid inter­ before attempting to answer, I was struck by "emunah." After all, the enttre modus R. S.R. Hirsch and R. David Zvi Hoffman, ested, speaking clearly, and presenting the in­ the irony of the question. Here I was, socializ­ operandi of our community rests on our re­ continuing through this century with the schol­ formation in a comprehensible fashion, is no ing with a non-Jew, about to explain to him liance on the knowledge and judgment of a se­ arship of figures such as Umberto Cassuto, R. longer expected. It is the talmid's responsibility how our rabbis wanted to prevent this very lect elite. We do this because, well, we don't Mordochai Breuer, and Nechama Leibowitz. - and only his responsibility- to grasp a rebbe's kind of mingling - I kind of laughed inside. know enough ourselves. We lack the rigorous, These figures all attempted to fight the spread unique mannerisms and ~tyle of delivery. After But, instead of dodging the question, I felt like comprehensive and advanced Jewish education of the cancer of Biblical Criticism and its fun­ all, a rebbe should not be expected to compro­ I had to be genuine, honest. So I pulled myself that would provide us with the self-belief and damental hypothesis that the Torah is a man­ mise any aspect of his presentation characteris­ together, overcoming my hesitation and de­ self-assurance necessary to confront the non­ made compilation of multiple sources. They tics for the sake of his audience, or should he? cided to put my cards on the table - really, I Jewish world with confidence, without ever did this by engaging in serious Bible study I do not intend to belittle the difficulty of thought, I shouldn't have anything to hide and running the risk of compromising our own ha­ from the Orthodox perspective. Part of the fact studying Gemara. Gemara, as a text, can be ab­ even ifl do, why should I? lakhic observance. Until we truly own our be­ that belief in the Documentary Hypothesis is stract and archaic, and consequently difficult. Looking back on that moment in Star­ liefs, it's unlikely we'll ever look beyond our nowadays limited to secular academics is This problem is actually augmented by the tal­ bucks five months ago, I can't help but hate the tight-knit communities and defy the.prevalent partly to their credit. What educators such as ents of the Roshei Yeshiva; their analytical abil­ fact that I hesitated to be frank and truthful "us and them" attitude.
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