[Avodah] running a seder

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Apr 14 13:15:15 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:33:36PM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: I'd like to cite from my notes from a shiur given by Rav Nachman Bulman
: at Ohr Somayach in Yerushalayim in 1976:

: "Cheirus is *not* freedom, but rather aristocracy. The aristocrat is
: *not* totally free. On the contrary - his life is quite structured. Not
: *restricted*, but rather *structured*...

Very TIDE. (RnTK will be underwhelmed by that observation, sorry.)

"Cheirus al haluchos" combined with RSRH's notion of Torah as the
ennoblement of man -- "aristocracy is on the luchos" would be a
very precise description of the ideal person TIDE sets to create.

:-)||ii!
-Micha

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