The frum community is so beautiful, so full of chessed; why do people go OTD? There are two approaches to this troubling question in the classic sources. The Rambam maintains that the reason people go OTD is because they believed…
Tag: da’as torah
Knowing a lot of Torah doesn’t make you better
One of the biggest complaints I hear from people going through a crisis of faith is that the community leaders and rabbis are hypocrites. You can take a sampling online each day of the critical blogs and you can almost…
How do we shield our son from the hypocrisy in his yeshiva?
Dear Heshy, We send out son to one of the finest out of town yeshivas, but recently I’ve learned that he’s being exposed to something which we cannot really understand. Once a month, the local community hosts boys for different…
Finally a Charedi Rabbi we can all respect
It’s rough out there in Charedi land, too many Rabbonom get mixed up in affairs they shouldn’t be involved in and end up being caught up in the hypocrisy that leads to so many crisis of faith. I’ve been getting…
Is THIS what they’re teaching our children?!
(Jerusalem) The oilam hatorah is in an uproar following revelations at a recent gathering of veteran educators, community activists and Rabbonim. “It’s really quite shocking nobody has made a fuss about it until now,” said one askan, “this is our…