Modern Yeshivish

Recently, I was studying the shiurim listing at a shul. Every class was Gemara except for one short ein Yaakov class. Nobody needs to study the topic of emunah? Now there's emunah in the Gemara but from experience I can tell you that the shiurim weren't studying those parts. And what about halacha? This was a shul for baalei batim. They all know the halacha they need? No way.

Who is leading these people? What has happened to the rabbinate? Are they completely out of touch with reality? Many of them live in a bubble, in their own little world.

I spent some time recently with a Litvish rabbi .When I say Litvish I don't mean true Litvish. I mean American/israeli contemporary yeshivish. We need a new word for it really as they aren't Litvish anymore. Americanish? Israeli-ish? Modern yeshivish? Traife?

He never mentioned Hashem ever. Everything was for Torah and by Torah he meant intellectual gymnastics in the Gemara. The guy never talked hashkafa.

One day he went to give a drosho to baalei batim. I was encouraged by the hope that he'd talk about bitachon finally. And the subject, the importance of Torah study. That's a drosho to a Modern yeshivish rabbi. It tells you that Modern yeshivish Gemara has become a god in itself, a false one.

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The Backstory of the Chassidim Who Got Criminal Justice Reform Done

Inspired by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a group saw prison reform through from proposal to law

By Dovid MargolinDecember 27, 2018 3:05 PM

“If a person is being held in prison, the goal should not be punishment but rather to give him the chance to reflect on the undesirable actions for which he was incarcerated,” the Rebbe said in Yiddish in a 1976 talk. “He should be given the opportunity to earn, improve himself and prepare for his release when he will commence an honest, peaceful, new life, having used his days in prison toward this end.

“In order for this be a reality a prisoner must be allowed to maintain a sense that he is created in the image of God; he is a human being who can be a reflection of Godliness in this world. But when a prisoner is denied this sense and feels subjugated and controlled; never allowed to raise up his head, then the prison system not only fails at its purpose, it creates in him a greater criminal than there was before. One of the goals of the prison system is to help Jewish inmates and non-Jewish inmates ... to raise up their spirits and to encourage them, providing the sense, to the degree possible, that they are just as human as those that are free; just as human as the prison guards. In this way they can be empowered to improve themselves ... ”