[Avodah] Boys Being Taught How to Cook

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:29:01PM +0300, Ben Waxman wrote:
: What I meant was that today, all we can learn from the avot (and Moshe and 
: David for that matter) is that a young man should learn a profession, lav 
: dafka sheperding. I wasn't speaking about them.

I still don't see how you can justify that generalization. It's not
like the avos, Moshe, David, most of the shofetim, all of our leaders
who both had opportunity and pre-dated the economic problem of stripping
Israel bare of grass (shepherding was looked down upon in later years),
were in a single profession. How do you get from that to ignoring the
particular profession?

In terms of the original point, if you won't concede anything as
specific as shepherding, I guess you also wouldn't concede RYL's point
about teaching cooking.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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