@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies This characterization is incomplete.
The focus of Charedi education, which extends anywhere from 5 to 25 years post-high school, is on knowing the intricacies of Jewish law and on cultivating the Inspiration to live by Jewish law. Scholarship and integrity are at a premium.
The focus of Charedi education, which extends anywhere from 5 to 25 years post-high school, is on knowing the intricacies of Jewish law and on cultivating the Inspiration to live by Jewish law. Scholarship and integrity are at a premium.
@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies The Insular and particularist tendencies of Charedi community derive from multiple factors, including its perception that broader society is immoral and increasingly devaluing of religious practice and belief.
@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies Charedi Jews, when considering broader society, typically do not distinguish between its more sophisticated and (secular) educated members and those of its members who seem to encourage promiscuity and crass behavior.
@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies Some might accuse them of short-sightedness. They themselves will refer to wars, literal or ideological, that tradition-minded Jews have waged, for millennia, against Hellenists, Romanticists, The Enlightenment, Heterodoxies, Communists, and secular Zionists.
@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies Many Charedim approach politics with less of a focus on the character of a candidate and more of a focus on whether the candidate will support their right to practice Judaism in the manner they deem authentic. Some consider this approach cynical. Others consider it pragmatic.
@HannahLebovits @ProfJSDavies I hope this is helpful.
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