[Avodah] Women and Tallis

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:37:17PM +1100, Isaac Balbin wrote:
:> Nevu'ah is for mussar, it's for deveiqus -- it can
:> have value without contributing to the din.

: Deveikus for the Rav is keeping Halacha

And yet he lamented the loss of the "erev Shabbos Jew".

RYBS grew up in a world where values were imparted preconsciously,
culturally. R' Chaim spent most of his life doing chesed, but you
wouldn't know this from his recorded Torah. It doesn't read like R'
Yisrael Salanter.

And so, while he made conscious effort to draw from personal experience
and relay that to his talmidim, I think the lack of conscious discourse
on values shows up in RYBS's writings.

A Litvish erev Shabbos Jew felt the rising anticipation of Shabbos
because of his sevivah, everyone else was, it was part of the culture
of his youth, etc... Today, we won't have erev Shabbos Jews without the
adoption of conscious methods to inculcate those values. Whether we're
talking Mussar, Chassidus, Chavaqu"q-esque modern chulents, etc...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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