tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403328333335592440.post6403262878860409376..comments2023-10-08T11:15:17.083+03:00Comments on Open Minded Torah: Together!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08814307794629407094noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403328333335592440.post-23677494251672946232008-05-14T17:18:00.000+03:002008-05-14T17:18:00.000+03:00Just a comment:My Rabbi sends his children to a ve...Just a comment:<BR/>My Rabbi sends his children to a very special school. Although they are "normal" kids, they, DAVKA, learn with special children (I think that some of the special kids have Down's syndrome). Believe it or not, my Rabbi claims that not only that learning with special kids does not harm the "normal" kids, but it actually contributes to their education. Learning with special kids, my Rabbi says, nurtures his children's sensitivity and other mental skills. <BR/><BR/>May all people be like my RabbiMiriKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11758660445377051358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403328333335592440.post-88466149257816472602008-05-14T14:13:00.000+03:002008-05-14T14:13:00.000+03:00Bill, I wish you success in your blog.You wrote me...Bill, I wish you success in your blog.<BR/><BR/>You wrote me that the title of the blog "is not a contradiction in terms!" basing yourself on Lear's non-defensive interpretation of the soul and the psyche, and evolving the idea to "the conviction that one can both be attuned to the authenticity of oneself and to ...the voice of Torah. But both require being open minded"<BR/> <BR/>I would put it to you that the "authenticity of oneself" - the philosophy of ego ipse sum is in many ways kefirah as it denies the required total subjection of the individual to the halacha and hashkafa of the Torah. It's the quagmire that many of our Dati Leumi bretheren have fallen into, divesting the absolute control to that of sharing Torah with a non acquiescent modernity. This personal authenticity really is a dangerous tool in the wrong hands.<BR/> <BR/>OpenMindedTorah gives the impression that starting with an open mind one can begin to examine and to investigate the Torah. Perhaps it would have been more fitting for the blog to have been called TorahOpenMinded. That way with the Torah paramount, it's possible to investigate issues that may conflict.<BR/> <BR/>Bill, in my humble opinion, anything that is written by a frum yid for the public domain, for the edification of the gullible masses should be of the Dvekus HaShem genre. Conceptual ideas that give freedom of spirit without such bounds are only likely to confuse and estrange the individual from the truth as understood by our forefathers.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17059634038254857103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403328333335592440.post-22954224293855174462008-05-06T16:41:00.000+03:002008-05-06T16:41:00.000+03:00Hello William: I found the article deep and challe...Hello William: I found the article deep and challenging. The question I have to ask is probably less relevant to Shmuel or Pinchos than it should be: anyways here it is. Where did you get the name for your blog? I mean, how can one be haredi and post-modern or open-minded at once? Isn't it a paradox? And if it is, is living hte paradoc your solution to it? Looking forward to future articles.Yaakov Mascettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08564611817774035048noreply@blogger.com