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<DIV><BR>On 4/12/2012 9:38 AM, kennethgmiller@juno.com wrote:<BR><BR>" I believe
it was Rav Hutner ZT"L who once complained about how the <BR>Christians stole
Tanach from the Jews- after all they can quote Isaiah <BR>and Zedekiah better
than most Jews; as the Jews stopped learning these <BR>works."</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>From: Lisa Liel <lisa@starways.net><BR><BR>What? When did
this happen?<BR><BR>Lisa</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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).</DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</FONT></B><BR><FONT
color=#0000ff>Romney -- good values, good family, good
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