[Avodah] The Yeshivas and the Seder

[Prof. Levine]

At 05:23 PM 3/15/2010, R. Yosef Skolnick wrote:


> > *Dare one suggest that it is time for the yeshivas to stop preparing their
> > talmidim for the seder and follow Reb Yaakov's approach?
> >
>
>I would be happy to say that I agree with you.  I have a big concern though.
>  There are students in the schools that don't have parents that know enough
>to be able to teach their children.  Either the parents never got to go to
>yeshiva for one reason or another, or there was a divorce in the family etc.
>  If the kids don't know some of the story from school, when will they learn
>it to teach to their children.
>
>Yosef Skolnick

It is not me that anyone has to agree with.  Remember, I had a story 
from Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky in which he said this.

I will agree with you that it depends on the school. Certainly, if 
many of the students come from "weak" homes, as one often finds in 
day schools in cities with a relatively small number of observant 
families, then the school should teach much about the Seder.

However, even (or especially) in the Chareidi schools here in 
Brooklyn, one finds that the kids come home "armed."  In these 
schools the parent body is well educated Jewishly.

YL


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