[Avodah] Rav Moshe Shternbuch: On Teaching Children Tanach

[Micha Berger]

: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:32:26AM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
: > From http://revach.net/article.php?id=437

: > The minhag in today's Yeshivos is not to teach Tanach before learning  
: > Gemara. Rav Moshe Shternbuch (2:457) explains that learning Tanach  
: > requires even deeper understanding than learning Gemara. A Mekor for  
: > this is Rashi in Brachos (28a) who says that one should stay away from 
: > too much Tanach.

RDE pointed me to the original
<http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20026&pgnum=390>

RMS appears to be saying that studying Nakh without a firm grounding
in Chazal first is too prone to lead one to kefirah. In addition to
the source Revach.net quotes, which requires translating "yoser midai"
as /any/ formal study, he also cites the Chasam Sofer (Toras Moshe P'
Shemos), who says that the translation to Greek gave people a taste of
peshuvo shel miqrah, which gave birth to apiqursus. "Which, ba'avonoseinu
harabim, still dances among us."

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