[Avodah] Stopped learning Nach? (was Re: What does "Redemption/Geulah" mean?)

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On 4/12/2012 9:38 AM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:

" I believe  it was Rav Hutner ZT"L who once complained about how the 
Christians stole  Tanach from the Jews- after all they can quote Isaiah 
and Zedekiah better  than most Jews; as the Jews stopped learning these 
works."
 
 

From: Lisa Liel <lisa at starways.net>

What?  When did  this happen?

Lisa

 
>>>>>
 
It seems to me that it wasn't the Christians who "stole" Tanach  from us by 
memorizing portions that few frum Jews study.  It was actually  the 
Haskalah, the Documentary Theory and all that -- turning Tanach into a field  of 
secular academic study -- that "stole" it from us, because the response of  
the yeshiva world was to look askance at anyone who had too deep an  interest 
in Tanach.  In the same way and for the same reason, the study of  Hebrew 
language and dikduk was "stolen" from us.  When did this all  happen?  In the 
19th century in Europe.  It has remained the norm in  most of the yeshiva 
world ever since then to discourage the study of Tanach and  of Ivrit (except 
in Israel, where dikduk IS studied in depth in the  chareidi world).
 
In the 20th century, as one godol remarked (name supplied on request), the  
study of Tanach was "saved" by the girls' schools, the Bais Yakov  movement 
and women's seminaries.  "If it were not for the women of  this generation, 
the study of Tanach would  be lost to us."
 
 
--Toby Katz
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Romney -- good values, good family, good  hair


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