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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #60 on: February 19, 2014, 04:01:23 PM »
Your allegations about those working in RE are backed up? I would like to see sources.

Dan, that's barely a refutation. All I'm saying was that it was with the Rebbe's approval for the sake of not alienating kids with parents with nonnegotiable English preferences.
1. Read it in the WSJ a short while ago. Feel free to search.
2. Source?
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #61 on: February 19, 2014, 04:29:29 PM »
Do you know anyone that the rebbe told to go to university or only after they asked some were allowed to go. how can I decide if I'm an exception?
(only Some people who were already there were told to continue).
The Rebbe in the will he delivered publicly after מײח, was pretty clear that after ג' תמוז, you are supposed to ask 3 chassidisher Rabbonim.

People running around quoting a הוראה פרטית the Rebbe gave to someone and trying to apply it to the masses/themselves is pretty silly IMHO, and you are just fooling yourself/trying to justify yourself.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #62 on: February 19, 2014, 04:38:17 PM »
People running around quoting a הוראה פרטית the Rebbe gave to someone and trying to apply it to the masses/themselves is pretty silly IMHO, and you are just fooling yourself/trying to justify yourself.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #63 on: February 19, 2014, 04:38:22 PM »
Pass the good stuff please.
LA was set up with limudei chol with the Rebbe's brochos in the 70s.
Happen to agree with you about limudei chol, but IMHO bringing a ראיה from a brocho is pretty lame. I can't say for sure, but I can imagine the Rebbe blessed alot of shidduchim, which ended up divorcing.

Passive≠Active.

Someone coming to the Rebbe informing him of a project and the Rebbe saying "הצלחה" can obviously not be compared to the Rebbe going out and actively promoting/endorsing a concept.

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« Reply #64 on: February 23, 2014, 04:14:17 AM »
Because in case you didn't realize there ain't no more shlichus spots open.

On a side note, how are shlichus divvied up? Is there a central org that does placements?
How do they decide whether to send an Israeli or American?
Do turf battles ever break out?

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #65 on: February 23, 2014, 04:29:33 AM »
Maybe this is beyond the scope of this thread, but what did Chazal (meaning Rabbanim who lived many many years b/f the Rebbe) say about learning secular topics to help with having a parnassa? Shouldn't their opinion (yay or nay) enter into this conversation at some point, or did the Rebbe's psak's eclipse e/t else?

How about prior Rebbe's? Did they voice an opinion on this matter?

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #66 on: February 23, 2014, 11:19:43 AM »
The Rebbe didn't issue a "psak" and none of this is as clear cut as anyone would have you believe.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #67 on: February 23, 2014, 11:29:17 AM »
That works both ways.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #68 on: February 23, 2014, 11:34:23 AM »
That works both ways.
No argument.
And that's exactly why we have mesivtas both ways.

My beef is that Chabad mont penimous. 
When you're doing something, be focused and give it all you got.
And if we're going to expend time and energy to learn secular studies it shouldn't be with teachers that can't teach and are willing to work for slave wages, it should be done right.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #69 on: February 23, 2014, 12:37:03 PM »
The rebbe gave Brochos both ways. Its pretty clear the rebbe still favored against limudei chol. One could argue that the rebbe would give different instructions these days because of the Shlichus situation... But there's nobody who we will respect to make such radical change

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #70 on: February 23, 2014, 02:30:43 PM »
The rebbe gave Brochos both ways. Its pretty clear the rebbe still favored against limudei chol. One could argue that the rebbe would give different instructions these days because of the Shlichus situation... But there's nobody who we will respect to make such radical change

What's radical change? No one is saying that every Lubavitch yeshiva should have mandatory secular studies. It would just be nice if we could try not to stigmatize a yeshiva (and its students) which does provide a secular education.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #71 on: February 23, 2014, 02:34:22 PM »
What's radical change? No one is saying that every Lubavitch yeshiva should have mandatory secular studies. It would just be nice if we could try not to stigmatize a yeshiva (and its students) which does provide a secular education.
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No argument.
And that's exactly why we have mesivtas both ways.

My beef is that Chabad mont penimous. 
When you're doing something, be focused and give it all you got.
And if we're going to expend time and energy to learn secular studies it shouldn't be with teachers that can't teach and are willing to work for slave wages,
it should be done right.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #72 on: February 23, 2014, 02:44:03 PM »
The Rebbe in the will he delivered publicly after מײח, was pretty clear that after ג' תמוז, you are supposed to ask 3 chassidisher Rabbonim.

People running around quoting a הוראה פרטית the Rebbe gave to someone and trying to apply it to the masses/themselves is pretty silly IMHO, and you are just fooling yourself/trying to justify yourself.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #73 on: February 23, 2014, 10:24:48 PM »
1. Read it in the WSJ a short while ago. Feel free to search.
2. Source?

1. Couldn't find it. In major cities, real estate produces a good living.
2. Although I wasn't able to contact the Rosh, one of my friends just told me that he heard from him that the Rebbe
approved the English program in LA to attract kids that otherwise wouldn't go to Yeshiva. Which echoes the Rebbe's
sicha in 12 Tammuz 5717, in which the Rebbe stresses that it was only in order to save kids that schools were allowed
to have limudei chol and that it's ridiculous to draw conclusions for other places. The Rebbe likens it to telling a healthy person
to take medicine. http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=25052&st=&pgnum=145

Here(http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14934&st=&pgnum=160), the Rebbe gives a clear ho'roah to teach
kids strictly al taharas hakodesh without mixing in any limudei chol. I previously mentioned Simchas Torah 5715(http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=4584&st=&pgnum=74). In
it the Rebbe states his unambiguous position that limudei chol is metamei the brain of a child and should be avoided as much as possible. In Purim 5722(http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=4589&st=&pgnum=359), the Rebbe ridicules limudei chol as well.

I spoke tonight with R' Leibel Groner(a decades-long personal secretary of the Rebbe), who told me that the only exception to the Rebbe's fierce opposition to limudei chol was when he answered college students who became frum and were finishing their degree.. He relayed to me that when parents were pressuring R' Michoel Teitelbaum to include basic mathematics in the Oholei Torah curriculim, he wrote to the Rebbe. The Rebbe answered him "b'shum oifen nisht"(not under any circumstances).

Again, the Rebbe's ho'roah lerabim during all public addresses and 99.99 of letters was to shun limudei chol. There were rare exceptions. The Rebbe publicly appealed in 12 Tammuz 5717(mentioned above) not to extrapolate to other cases/situations.

Maybe this is beyond the scope of this thread, but what did Chazal (meaning Rabbanim who lived many many years b/f the Rebbe) say about learning secular topics to help with having a parnassa? Shouldn't their opinion (yay or nay) enter into this conversation at some point, or did the Rebbe's psak's eclipse e/t else?

How about prior Rebbe's? Did they voice an opinion on this matter?
The chiyuv to teach ones son a trade (learned by many Rishonim and Acharonim[including the Alter Rebbe{Ba'al haTanya}]) is after one teaches(or sends to melamed/yeshiva) him Torah. The Rebbeim of Chabad, along with most old-school Gedolei Yisroel during the past several generations, took that approach. The Rebbe wasn't against learning a trade after a bochur's formal yeshiva years, rather during them.

The Rebbe didn't issue a "psak" and none of this is as clear cut as anyone would have you believe.

If "psak" is synonymous with "ho'roah" in Chabad vernacular, then yes, the Rebbe did issue a psak(the Alter Rebbe already did in Hilchos Talmud Torah{which the Rebbe quoted regarding this}) to avoid limudei chol as much as possible. Countless sichos, letters, and yechidusen point to that. Just like the Rebbe 'paskened' not to drink more than 4 l'chaims equaling a revi'is, notwithstanding the famous exception in the Deutch's Sukkah or to native Russians.
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #74 on: February 24, 2014, 01:00:47 AM »
briefly, the definition of "limudei chol" is not lined up here.

1) It's quite possible to say that K-12 is not what the Rebbe was referring to in referencing Limudei Chol overall, but rather the secular classes post-high school.

2) The classes of "general studies" themselves may actually not be limdei chol:
       While perhaps Shakespeare is LC, most likely the maths, the sciences, spelling, and the Jewish histories are not LC.
     
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #75 on: February 24, 2014, 01:24:55 AM »
briefly, the definition of "limudei chol" is not lined up here.

1) It's quite possible to say that K-12 is not what the Rebbe was referring to in referencing Limudei Chol overall, but rather the secular classes post-high school.

2) The classes of "general studies" themselves may actually not be limdei chol:
       While perhaps Shakespeare is LC, most likely the maths, the sciences, spelling, and the Jewish histories are not LC.
     
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #76 on: February 24, 2014, 01:30:37 AM »
Amazing how the Rebbe was so dead-set against english and yet countless mesivtas with english across the globe sprouted up during his leadership.
One sentence and they'd all have folded.
If there needed to be one for "those people", fine.
But multiples...

Equally amazing is that in zal the guys that learned in O.T. all day long were no more advanced in Judaic studies than the people from schools with secular studies.  They were great bullshovers though.
Better to learn limudei chol l'toeles than to battul away your time, no?




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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #77 on: February 24, 2014, 01:31:44 AM »
..." The meeting was scheduled for 11 PM. Prof. Rosenbloom realized that the Rebbe would be seeing many people before and after him. Feeling that the area in which he shared the greatest common interest with the Rebbe was chinuch (education), and to save the Rebbe time, he wrote some of his ideas down and gave them to one of the Rebbe's secretaries.

When he gave him the note, Prof. Rosenbloom told the secretary the general thrust of his thinking: that the programs of limudei kodesh (Torah studies) and limudei chol (secular studies) in Jewish day schools should be integrated.

The secretary reacted with shock. "There must be," he told the professor, "a distinction between the holy and the mundane! A child must know what is sacred and what is not."

When speaking to the Rebbe, however, Prof. Rosenbloom received a different picture. "Children should be taught to appreciate that everything is connected with the Torah," the Rebbe told him. "When they perform an experiment in a science lab, they should know that it is G-d's creative power that is causing the chemical reactions they observe.

"There are some," the Rebbe continued, "who have two sets of bookshelves, one for seforim [sacred texts] and another for secular books. That is the wrong approach. If a person thinks of secular wisdom as being unrelated to the Torah, he does not understand the Torah, nor does he truly understand the secular subject he is studying."...
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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #78 on: February 24, 2014, 01:47:43 AM »
Equally amazing is that in zal the guys that learned in O.T. all day long were no more advanced in Judaic studies than the people from schools with secular studies.
I would have to disagree there, IME that was certainly not the case.

They were great bullshovers though.
Better to learn limudei chol l'toeles than to battul away your time, no?
One may argue that the guys who spent their time in seder bullshoving would likely put even less energy into limodei chol.




Either way, I think this is really all a side point. I disagree with your main premise that a proper education equals and is necessary for a decent parnossah.

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Re: Shlichus Addiction?
« Reply #79 on: February 24, 2014, 01:59:17 AM »
Never said that it's necessary to have an education and a degree to make money.
There will always be exceptions to the rule.

But the vast majority of jobs require a degree, that's a fact.
And the highest paying jobs, like doctors, require a lot more than just a degree in hebrew letters.

Now you don't need to make $400K to have a good life, but the yeshivas would sure love to have your children.
But just look at the number of unemployed men in CH who don't know in which direction to turn.
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