@HannahLebovits You are right and wrong, at the same time.

Those who are not “Charedi-dox” are not necessarily less Frum.
@HannahLebovits If there were a primer for those entering the Charedi world, it would highlight the primacy of such Charedi values as Torah learning, insularity, and, above all, Mesorah from a Rebbi/Morah who themselves are considered Charedim.
@HannahLebovits These values inform the Charedi approach to:
Bitachon: more radical than Chazon Ish
Secular studies: none > some; autodidact > formally educated
Broader culture: ranges from suspicious to hostile
Criticism: can never be against its leaders, given that they define Da’as Torah

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28 Oct
כתוב בפרשת לך לך, “בפסגת” ברית בין הבתרים
״והנה תנור עשן ולפיד אש *אשר עבר* בין הגזרים האלה״
אונקלוס, כשתרגם המילים ״אשר עבר״, לא תרגם ״די עבר״ אלא ״די עדא״. וזה מלשון עיבור והריון.
וצ״ע: מה ענין הריון לברית בין הבתרים?

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עוד יש לדעת מה הקשר בין המילים ״עבר״ ו״עיבור״, אשר שרשם דומים זל״ז?

וי״ל שעיבור היא התהליך שעל ידה הנשמה עוברת מלפני כסא הכבוד עד לארץ - וזה ע״י העובר.

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והנה כתוב במדרש שה״ש, על הפסוק ״באתי לגני״ שמתחילה דרה השכינה בתחתונים עד שחטאו אדם, קין, ואנוש וכו׳ ונסתלקה השכינה, הלוך ונסוע, עד לרקיע השביעי. שוב בא אברהם אבינו והוריד השכינה לרקיע הששי וכו׳

3/
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18 Oct
מבול - 78
עצם - 200
עורב - 278

עצם היינו הכח לסגור ולמנוע מי ממבול
עורב היינו הכח הבוקעת את הסגר

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כל אירוע שנ׳ בו ״*בעצם* היום הזה״ - מבול, ברית א׳א, יצ׳מ, פטי׳ מרע׳ה - משתייכת לניגוד ליסוד המים, דהיינו כח התאווה.

העורב, בין בימי נח בין בימי אליהו, התחבר ליסוד המים ע״י שהתנגד למניעת המים. (שימש בתיבת נח, האכיל לאליהו במשך הרעב).

2/
עצם היינו דבר יבש, דבר עצמי, בלי שום תערובת.

עורב משתייך לחיבור, כמו ערבות ותערובת.

3/3
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15 Oct
If nothing else, this thread clarifies what a good number of my coreligionists have been telling themselves, as they justify the curves too many of them have been shooting, for too long, around safety guidelines.
If you read between the lines, you can discern how many self-appointed epidemiologists our community has spawned and how very little ownership we take for not just the “crazies“, but entire sub-communities that have ignored safety guidelines.
You won’t get a chance to read about the duplicity of those who made (literally) underground weddings, so they could host hundreds of people, without masks, in their own neighborhoods.
Read 5 tweets
2 Oct
Thread:

A Rabbi who taught us in NY recalls his childhood:

His father had been murdered by the Nazis. He and his peers were raised in a DP camp. The Rebbi who taught them Torah, himself a survivor, was a tyrant. He whipped boys for not mastering their lessons.

1/
Our Rebbi and his peers decided to stay up one night reciting Tehillim/Psalms, hoping that G-d would heed their prayers and kill their sadistic Rebbi!

He recalls their sense of amazement, upon waking up the next morning and discovering... that their Rebbi was still alive.

2/
This story and my original tweet speak to the way religious people face the conundrum of a world that allows for abuse and suffering, alongside of prayer, faith, and naivete.
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8 Sep
Thread
About a week ago, I asked a Posek (Jewish law decisor), whom I respect, why he was advising a local school to reinstate full in-person learning, even as the students were barely 3 apart from each other, even as the school had no medical advisory board. 1/4
He responded that, when it comes to public health, there are stringent experts and there are lenient experts. He named one expert (of whom I’d never heard) who, among other things, said that only 3 feet of distance are necessary. 2/4
When I later shared this exchange with a slightly older and perhaps wiser Rabbi, he responded “That doctor is a Da’at Yachid (minority opinion).” Then he playfully, facetiously added “You know, Jewish Law always follows the Da’at Yachid.” (It doesn’t.) 3/4
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2 Aug
@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.
@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.
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