[Avodah] Rav Moshe Shternbuch: On Teaching Children Tanach

[Prof. Levine]

 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.

The danger he says is that people do not realize this. He quotes the 
Chasam Sofer who says that this was the tragedy of translating the 
Torah to Greek. Since then, people were free to learn Tanach with 
literal translation without being taught the correct interpretation 
through kabalas avoseinu.

This is not to say that Tanach is blacklisted, says Rav Shternbuch. 
One who has learned a great deal of gemara and poskim and has 
acquired a great deal of Yiras Hashem is required to learn all of 
Tanach and must know it thoroughly.(See also 
<http://revach.net/article.php?id=4351>Rav Vosner's Tshuva on this subject)

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