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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">TORAH LISHMAH
</SPAN></I></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">– A NEW
HORIZON<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">By Rav Elyakim
Krumbein<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The htm version of this shiur is
available at:<O:P></O:P><BR><A
href="http://vbm-torah.org/archive/lishmah/01lishmah.htm"><SPAN>http://vbm-torah.org/archive/lishmah/01lishmah.htm</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Shiur</SPAN></I></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> #1: Why Our Generation Needs<I>
Torah Lishmah</I><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">A. Contemporary Torah Study:
Tradition and its Neglect<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Our generation struggles a good deal in its attitude toward Torah
study.<SPAN> </SPAN>Thank God, there are many who engage in Torah, but
many also question the significance of Torah in their lives.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Many feel a sense of commitment, but there is also an overbearing sense
of alienation.<SPAN> </SPAN>The perceived disconnect between Torah and
the areas of meaning and relevance in real life prevents students from
experiencing joy, fulfillment and satisfaction, and also diminishes from their
intellectual achievement in Torah.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Different strategies have been proposed to deal with this
problem.<SPAN> </SPAN>Today, we seem to be witnessing the emergence of
an approach calling for new methods in learning Torah, specifically with
regard to Gemara.<SPAN> </SPAN>Methods drawing inspiration from the
world of the sciences and literature have begun to spread.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Each halakhic topic is expected, methodologically, to reveal its
experiential, inner core and philosophical depth through the use of these
media.<SPAN> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">What distinguishes our generation in
this regard is that the new approaches do not add a new dimension onto the
accepted approaches to learning, but rather seek to replace and supplant
them.<SPAN> </SPAN>Modern-day teachers and students question the power
of the traditional style of learning, which has been transmitted from one
generation to the next for millennia, and prefer approaching the sources on an
entirely new basis, asking questions that have never before been
asked.<SPAN> </SPAN>Typical of this approach is a comment attributed to
a certain contemporary <I>Rosh Yeshiva</I> claiming that when a generation
does not study in the method that specifically suits its needs, this
constitutes <I>bittul Torah</I> (taking time away from Torah
study).<SPAN> </SPAN>One would be hard pressed to find even an echo of
such a concept in earlier generations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><SPAN><SPAN
class=889501520-27012009><FONT color=#0000ff>There's a certain irony imho that
this sounds like what was said about R' Chaim ("the chemist") by his
contemporaries in the orthodox world.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><SPAN><SPAN
class=889501520-27012009><FONT color=#0000ff>KT<BR>Joel
Rich</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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