Educational system according to the rabbi
Hello Rabbi,
I would very much like my children to follow and be educated in my path, and this is the rabbi’s understanding of faith, Torah, halacha, and in general, the rational (not rationalistic) way of thinking.
Where is the problem? Like you, like me, and probably other people who follow here, we have come to the conclusions we came to after going through conventional national-religious (or Haredi) education, we have tasted the taste of dogmatism, and now we also know how to identify dogmatism and other wondering thoughts and stay away from them.
I wonder to myself, if we had not already studied the things we have learned first, and then been exposed to your way of thinking, would we have accepted with our minds the things you say? That is, what you say regarding faith, Torah and Halacha study, in my opinion at least, makes sense, but that is after I had heard and learned other things first that did not sit well with me. Without prior exposure to the studies of faith, Torah and Halacha in the normal state way, is it possible to understand what you claim and teach? Ostensibly yes, because true words are true even without having to err in the way.
Is there anyone who has even tried to educate according to your philosophy?
I don’t understand why you assume that it’s impossible to educate in this way without prioritizing existing methods? I agree that there are risks in this, as with any educational method. I also agree that it should be done gradually, as with any education.
Because you, too, in explaining things, refer a lot to many things we learned, to misconceptions, to books that we realized were a shame to study as they lacked added value.
Reference to all sorts of currents in Israel that we thought about x because we experienced them, and we, the y-ball of your doctrine, simply do not see the need to bring our children closer to them, etc.
We are all “wise” because we have gone through/experienced this Judaism, and therefore also know how to deal (more or less) with the claims of those who hold to these paths and it is easy for us to explain to ourselves why they are wrong and we are getting a little closer to the truth than they are.
Let's take for example the lean Judaism that you talked about in the second book in the trilogy. You know how to go on a diet only after you have eaten all the various fats.
A child who does not eat the fats will not know that his menu is dietetic from the start and may fall into obesity later on.
At the heart of the question is, isn't your thought necessarily mature thought? That is, can it only be grasped after one necessarily passes the childhood stage?
I understand. I think there should be a distinction between the path itself and the explanation of it. When I explain to those who were raised to be used to it, I have to explain what is wrong and what is wrong with dieting. But if you educate basically like that, there is no need for such explanations.
But I don't know.
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