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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Micha Berger
<micha@aishdas.org><BR>i<BR><BR>>> "In yeshivos today
there<BR> is literally a pandemic of low
self-esteem..... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> ....he said simply it is<BR> a serious
problem in the litvishe yeshivas but not in the chassidic<BR> or
Sefardic ones. He said it is an inherent result of the
elitist<BR> philosophy that if you are not the best in learning you
are nothing.... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> In the chassidic and sefardic yeshiva systems it is
possible<BR> to have self-esteem in ways other than being the top
guy in learning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR><BR>.....What follows is a partial translation of Rav Dessler
(Michtav M'Eliyahu<BR> 3 page 355-357 by Prof.
Low....<BR><BR> The Frankfurt school supported an educational
system in which the<BR> students were exposed to the study of
secular subjects and later<BR> went on to universities. At the same
time it paid attention to<BR> the strict observance of all the
mitzvot. The advantage of the<BR> system was that the vast majority
of its adherents stayed Orthodox<BR> and carefully observed the
ordinances of the Shulchan Aruch,....<BR> ...</FONT><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>The price
paid for this was that few, if<BR> any, Gedolei Torah emerged from
such an educational system.....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> ....The Lithuanian Rashei Yeshivah, on the other hand, set as
their<BR> main objective to educate Gedolei Torah, discouraging all
contact<BR> with the intellectual world outside the
yeshiva.....They were well<BR> aware of the price they had to pay
for this because they knew<BR> that many yeshivah students were not
able to deal with this<BR> extreme lifestyle and would [and in fact
did] leave religious<BR> observance.....<BR><BR>
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<DIV>It is part of the incredible Hashgacha Pratis we see throughout the sweep
of Jewish history that the Ribono Shel Olam created a wondrous
world that contains both Yekkes and Litvaks, both Sefardim and
Chassidim, not to mention many other shevatim. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR> How many goodly creatures are there here!
<BR> How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
<BR> That has such people in't! [--RWS]<BR><BR><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV>
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