Volume 37: Number 54
Mon, 08 Jul 2019
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Message: 1
From: Rich, Joel
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 23:10:38 +0000
Subject: [Avodah] Compartmentalization and Synthesis in Modern
https://www.thelehrhaus.com/commentary/compartmentalization-and-synthesis-in-modern-orthodox-jewish-education/#em
Compartmentalization and Synthesis in Modern Orthodox Jewish Education By David Stein
A long piece focusing on proposed approach to education. The entire piece is interesting reading but this statement alone is worth our consideration IMHO.
"Modern Orthodoxy is a worldview that encompasses intellectual, social,
spiritual, cultural, and professional dimensions, and which recognizes that
there exist multiple - and competing - values in our world, all while
upholding the primacy of Torah learning and observance. All too often,
however, it gets reduced (at worst) to an ideology of compromise, or (at
best) a superficial pairing of general and Judaic studies."
KT
Joel Rich
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From: Marty Bluke
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 01:37:33 +0300
Subject: [Avodah] Paying your workers on time using electronic
R Zev Sero wrote
?He has to deposit it first and then withdraw the cash. Unless he
happens to know a store that takes third-party checks.?
The Israeli poskim who said that checks were like cash were assuming that
3rd party checks were accepted at stores as it used to be in Israel.
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Message: 3
From: Micha Berger
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 14:01:16 -0400
Subject: [Avodah] A Day to Disconnect
All this talk of Shabbos as a day to disconnect from phone, whatsapp and
facetime, from social media, from the internet, from television and its
replacements made me think...
I mean, if we were talking about feeling flooded by work email in
particular, that would be one thing. But that doesn't seem to be the
thrust of this kind of marketing Shabbos.
Historically, we noted that "melakhah" refers to creative activity
in particular. And thus Shabbos was an imitation of Hashem's taking a
break from creating so that we could have a day on which to just be --
vayinafash.
Now, we are viewing Shabbos as a break from filling our time basically
doing nothing...
I see this more as an observation about those 6 days.
There was a time when our lives revolved around sowing and plowing,
shearing and weaving, trapping and tanning, building and repairing.
Now we spend our days typing and communicating. But not in a socially
binding way, but in a manner that stresses us out to the point where we
can be excited by the idea of a day off from it.
They did, we critique.
Chodesh Tov!
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha
--
Micha Berger Good decisions come from experience;
http://www.aishdas.org/asp Experience comes from bad decisions.
Author: Widen Your Tent - Djoha, from a Sepharadi fable
- https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF
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