[Avodah] Netziv Story

[Boruch Horowitz]

  Quoting RYGB:
   
  > I think this is a horrible, terrible story, and reason in itself for 
  the book to have been banned. :-)
   
  If one is  against  banning   My Uncle the Netziv, or against bans as a  general rule, then they should be consistent, and  be against banning even such stories   At  times(not always)it may be  appropriate to follow, what is attributed to Voltaire(I think in error):  I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it  :)
   
  <It is the most anti-TIDE story I know, but even more so, enough to 
  impose an eternal guilt trip on so many people who would actually do 
  well to seek a profession and be neheneh me'yegi'a kapeihem.
   
  A person, especially a child, needs to know how to *dahare* and put a story in context. As long as an educator explains the Netziv story properly and in context of pro-TIDE sources, it doesn't have to lead to a guilt trip. Sometimes however, I agree that a story is so terrible that it should not be told at all. 
   
  For example, someone wanted to bring out the point that people should have more sensitivity and not say: *that statement is retarded*. To illustrate the point, this person told a * scary story*, where someone made such a statement, and then had a retarded child. Such a  story and *lesson* is  false and dangerous for more than one reason,  and should not be told, even if it is  *frum-sounding*.
   
  (I used asterisks instead of quotations, as the latter appears as question marks).
   
   
   

       
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