Sorry for the question, because this is a private matter and I understand if the Rabbi doesn’t want to answer, but how did it work out that way? Usually you decide where to live based on your job, and you were a ram in Yeruham, weren’t you? Is going to teach women in the Bar-Ilan midrasha not a bit of a drop in professional status, challenge, and the importance of the learning? (From my experience, girls are more naïve than boys in Torah-related subjects; see the Haredi world. But it seems to me that this is generally true. They usually get dragged along after the boys.) And in any case, the Rabbi should first and foremost teach boys.

A bit of biography:

Rabbi Michael Abraham was active in parallel in both the yeshiva world and the academic world. At Netivot Olam Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, he trained in the field of analytic Talmudic learning, and at the same time studied physics at Bar-Ilan University and later at the Weizmann Institute. That was the end of his academic involvement.

He did his teaching work in the world of Torah. First at the hesder yeshiva in Yeruham, and later at the women’s midrasha and at the Beit Midrash for Men of Bar-Ilan University, both Torah-yeshiva institutions intended to preserve and strengthen among the students the good old Torah, not “the Torah of Jewish Studies.” Rabbi Michael Abraham never entered that field in an academic framework.

Rabbi Michael Abraham entered the world of thinness first on the physical plane, and later also in the spiritual world, in trying to create a “thin theology,” which is a new creature, neither Torah nor Jewish Studies. About this it may be said: Blessed is the sage of the thin mysteries 🙂

With blessings, Yaron Dov Halevi Spiegel-Yashfeh,
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Who revealed to you this mystery that needed to be corrected?

To the leader of the congregation,

You didn’t answer anything. Everything you wrote is known to every beginning internet researcher.

To Immanuel — greetings,

The questioner who opened the discussion asked why Rabbi Michael Abraham moved from the yeshiva to the academic world. To that I answered that the process was the opposite. Rabbi Michael Abraham turned, alongside his yeshiva studies, to academic study of physics, and then returned to the yeshiva world in order to teach there. The hesder yeshiva in Yeruham, the women’s midrasha, and the Beit Midrash for Men are Torah institutions, intended to strengthen students in the spirit of the study hall, not academic Jewish studies.

As for your question why Rabbi Michael Abraham turned to teaching girls and not boys, I answered that he also serves as a ram at the Beit Midrash for Men, which is a study hall for boys, so your difficulty falls away from the outset. And in general, who said that teaching Torah to women is less important? Even at the giving of the Torah, God first addressed the “House of Jacob.”

And Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook already wrote in Ein Ayah that the answer to the angels’ claim, “What is one born of woman doing among us?” was, “We have come to receive the Torah.” The quality of readiness to receive understanding, to open oneself to an opinion from “outside,” is a distinctly feminine trait, which through the mother passes on to the son who learns. And according to Rabbi Berekhiah (Yoma 70), Torah scholars are called “men” because they combine the strength of men with the humility of women.

Women also have more resilience and faith. They continued to believe even when the men failed with the Golden Calf and with the spies. And how much faith and strength of will are needed to conceive, give birth to, and raise small children. Even the very name “mother” comes from her quality of nurturing her children out of faith.

With blessings, Yaron Dov Spiegel-Yashfeh

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… “I came to receive the Torah.” The quality of readiness to receive understanding, to open oneself to an opinion from “outside”…