[Avodah] Klal Yisrael - one people, many tribes [was: Self Esteem]

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From: Micha Berger  <micha at aishdas.org>
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>>   "In yeshivos today  there
is literally a pandemic of low  self-esteem..... 
 
 
   ....he said simply it is
a serious  problem in the litvishe yeshivas but not in the chassidic
or  Sefardic ones.  He said it is an inherent result of the  elitist
philosophy that if you are not the best in learning you  are nothing.... 
   In the chassidic and sefardic yeshiva systems it is  possible
to have self-esteem in ways other than being the top  guy in learning.


.....What follows is a partial translation of Rav Dessler  (Michtav 
M'Eliyahu
3 page 355-357 by Prof.  Low....

The Frankfurt school supported an educational  system in which the
students were exposed to the study of  secular subjects and later
went on to universities. At the same  time it paid attention to
the strict observance of all the  mitzvot. The advantage of the
system was that the vast majority  of its adherents stayed Orthodox
and carefully observed the  ordinances of the Shulchan Aruch,....
...The price  paid for this was that few, if
any, Gedolei Torah emerged from  such an educational system.....
 
   
 ....The Lithuanian Rashei Yeshivah, on the other hand, set as  their
main objective to educate Gedolei Torah, discouraging all  contact
with the intellectual world outside the  yeshiva.....They were well
aware of the price they had to pay  for this because they knew
that many yeshivah students were not  able to deal with this
extreme lifestyle and would [and in fact  did] leave religious
observance.....



>>>>>
It is part of the incredible Hashgacha Pratis we see throughout the sweep  
of Jewish history that the Ribono Shel Olam created a wondrous  world that 
contains both Yekkes and Litvaks, both Sefardim and  Chassidim, not to 
mention many other shevatim.  
 

How many goodly creatures are there here!  
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,  
That has such people in't! [--RWS]


--Toby Katz
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