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Is there any importance in studying history?

שו”תCategory: generalIs there any importance in studying history?
asked 5 years ago

Good morning,
Is there any importance in studying history? ?
Kind regards, Benjamin

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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago

Why not? Information is always useful. Thinking about events and their meaning is always useful. Perhaps it also leads to a stronger national and historical identification.

בין קאנט לרב הנזיר replied 5 years ago

To Benjamin he said –

They say in the name of Kant, that there is only one thing to learn from history: that people have never learned from history 🙂

However, my teacher of the Day of Israel [=Divrei Yemi Yisrael] in the seventh year (in the year 5775), R’ Aryeh Kostiner (father of Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, Rosh Yeshiva of Mitzpe Ramon), said that the Rabbi Nazir told him in his hearing that he was a teacher of history, that in this he was fulfilling a mitzvah from the Torah: ‘Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will tell you’.

They say in the name of the Rabbi that his father, Rabbi Kook, would write ‘History’, because through history God is revealed in a hidden way.

With blessings, Sh’t

מיכי Staff replied 5 years ago

And Yosef Avivi has already written: History is a high necessity.
I loved the stain of the Hertz (that I knew). Indeed, it is revealed in a very, very hidden way.

בנימין גורלין replied 5 years ago

“There is no wisdom in them and no material benefit, but only a waste of time” (Mishnah with the commentary of the Maimonides, translated by Rabbi Yosef Kapach, Jerusalem 1985, Nezikin, pp. 151-15) – Does the Rabbi disagree with the Maimonides?
Dear Shatz, I am also careful about this reason for writing history, but since I was censored the last time by Rabbi Michai, I set this censor myself, fumbled around and found this “spelling error” and so I tried my luck this time by changing the name to History, and indeed it worked out for me and God gave me grace, mercy and mercy in the eyes of Rabbi Michai and did not censor me this time.

Now that Shmada has become the son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Levanon of Mount Moriah, there is no fear that he will censor comments that spell out "history" 🙂

With blessings, Shahan Tzahan Zaher

הפוסק האחרון replied 5 years ago

What is the questioner trying to achieve?

After all, the answer also belongs to history because it is written before it is read.

א. replied 5 years ago

Despite my personal appreciation for Rabbi David HaCohen, I don't understand how this is a mitzvah. If it is a mitzvah, then it is far-reaching. What do we learn from history? That the people of Israel are a people like all other peoples, that worshipped gods and idols like all other peoples, and that the writers of the Torah were human beings. You study history about Alexander the Great, but where do you learn about the status of Mount Sinai?

המונתאיסט השלם replied 5 years ago

To realize history, one can understand processes that are going through the world
and see the hand of God in it
History is full of wonders. From it, one can strengthen one's complete faith
In the book of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Amozug. If according to the Bible, he analyzes the wars of the brothers Esau, Ishmael, and Jacob. Through history, in the appearances of their three religious prototypes, from a religious and cultural perspective, Islam is a spiritual and physical descendant of Ishmael. Christianity is the spiritual descendant of Esau the Red Sea. Through understanding the phenomenon of these religions and the sources of their problems, Ben Amozug offers a solution to the cultural and spiritual problems of these cultures that have influenced almost the entire world.

Even in the mental state of all humans, we have been planted to learn from history and understand what mistakes not to make. From history, we learn that complete cosmopolitanism, like communism, and in general, the attempt to erase the special personality that every people has, fails and brings disasters. From history, we also learn to beware of humanism The absolute who believes in man excessively and understands that man needs limits, laws and a kind of bending to a framework of values external to him in order to maintain the healthy and natural order of the world. On the other hand, we learn that there are revolutions that must be made sometimes with determination and without partiality and slowly and carefully. This method of learning lessons from history and using it as a condition that helps preserve religious society was elaborated by Rabbi Chaim Navon Shlita in his article The Evil Inclination Did Not Retire

Sefi Gliditzhar Shlita from the Young Rabbis in Religious Zionism analyzes in a series of lessons the problems that exist in Islam and Christianity from a historical analysis of the Bible to the present day and suggests ways to correct them

With blessings.
The Complete Monastic

המונתאיסט השלם replied 5 years ago

https://musaf-shabbat.com/2012/10/19/%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A2-%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%90-%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F/#comments
Highly recommended
As the author's name suggests, Navon is

המונתאיסט השלם replied 5 years ago

I hope I don't get reprimanded by the rabbi for ridiculous sermons just because I express my opinion that religious lessons can be learned from history about human problems (:

In the last paragraph, line 1
Sefi Geldzler…

Sefi Geldzler is a student of Rabbi Uri Sharkey, and often teaches the thought of Rabbi Yehuda Ashkenazi ‘Manitou’, Sefi is the brother-in-law of my son-in-law Yair Zand (husband of my daughter Shulamit). Sefi's wife, Orit, is Yair Zand's sister, the granddaughter of the orientalist (researcher of Iranian Jewry, Bukhara and the Caucasus) and aliyah activist from Bria”m Prof. Michael Zand, the late.

Best regards, Shchel

‘Geld Tzehler’ in Yiddish is ‘Mona Maot’. I suggested that he translate his name to ’Senper’ 🙂 But the family is careful to keep the original name, as a memory of the family members who perished in the Holocaust.

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