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Hello Rabbi,
What do you think about the Amish society’s rumspringa phenomenon?
In other words, do you think this educational method has a good point in which a young person experiences different lives before committing to a religion? And do you think the Jewish world should adopt it (perhaps not systematically but selectively for those who are ‘confused’)?
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I don’t know the term, and I assume you mean the trial year they give every boy and girl. I’m all for it, but it doesn’t have to be a practical experiment (living in a different society). A person should decide their own path, I agree with that. And it’s even less good to give someone who is confused such an experiment, because they’ll come out even more confused. The questions that need to be faced are not questions of existential experience but of truth and right, and therefore life in a different society has a rather limited meaning in this sense.
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