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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine@stevens.edu><BR>From
http://revach.net/article.php?id=437<BR><BR>The minhag in today's Yeshivos is
not to teach Tanach before learning <BR>Gemara. Rav Moshe Shternbuch (2:457)
explains that learning Tanach <BR>requires even deeper understanding than
learning Gemara. A Mekor for <BR>this is Rashi in Brachos (28a) who says that
one should stay away <BR>from too much Tanach.<BR><BR>The danger he says is that
people do not realize this. ...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>This is not to say that Tanach is blacklisted, says Rav Shternbuch.
<BR>One who has learned a great deal of gemara and poskim and has <BR>acquired a
great deal of Yiras Hashem is required to learn all of <BR>Tanach and must know
it thoroughly.(See also <BR><http://revach.net/article.php?id=4351>Rav
Vosner's Tshuva on this subject)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>>>>><BR> I knew Rav Sternbuch in South Africa but have not
seen him in years. However, if I ever do see him again, I would like to
ask him some questions about this. I went to a very frum school* in which
the students were taught Tanach before ever learning Gemara, indeed, in which
Gemara was never taught at all. And then in Johannesburg, while R'
Sternbuch was there, I myself was a teacher in such a school** -- in
fact, I taught Tanach -- and I don't recall that he ever voiced any
objection. So far I still haven't gotten around to learning
Gemara. I would really like to ask him what he thinks about that.</DIV>
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<DIV>*Bais Yakov of the Bronx</DIV>
<DIV>**Bais Yakov of Johannesburg</DIV>
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<DIV><B><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT
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