[Avodah] kiruv cholent [was: how do you teach emuna?]

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From: Micha Berger via Avodah _avodah at lists.aishdas.org_ 
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>> It's a first-hand experience we can't simply share with  others, and with
those who go OTD, we obviously didn't do so well enough to  justify
the personal cost to keep on observing....

And the same  psychology of those who go OTD comes to play among those
who become BTs.  Experience, emotions, and the threshold of personal
cost.

This is the  reason for those cynical comments about kiruv being more
about chulent than  talmud Torah. Hopefully you haven't heard them.
But that's the seed of  truth.

 
>>>>>
 
It's not "cynical" to say that inviting someone for a Shabbos meal can be  
an effective way -- maybe the most effective way -- to introduce someone to  
Torah.
 
It goes back to the Gemara, I believe:  "Tavlin yesh ushemo  Shabbos."

--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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