It’s imperative that you have the best and brightest for your yeshiva. A yeshiva student is an investment. A yeshiva needs to be properly managed in order to grow and succeed.
Once that yeshiva student reaches his pinnacle of growth and success, you and he have reached the most optimal production output.
However, not all yeshiva students are created equal. Only the best can ensure you reach that end game of mutual success.
The adage, “Never judge a book by its cover” is completely false. It’s the single quickest way for an interviewer to take a chance on a complete idiot, drug user, social justice warrior (never let them in your organization), slacker and piss poor student.
So, let me make this crystal clear, judge. Life is about making judgments, but you need to be cautious and judicious with making decisions on potential yeshiva students. Typically, what you see is what you get when interviewing.
Candidates you should definitely pass on: members of religious cults.
At best, you have to spend additional hours you don’t have correcting them and, eventually you’ll be forced to ask them to leave. It only goes significantly downhill from that point on – i.e., lawsuits.
Appendix:
Most yeshivas and kollels today are cults. What I suggest is to start a yeshiva that is not a cult. Also to terminate the cults.
Appendix:
Most yeshivas and kollels today are cults. What I suggest is to start a yeshiva that is not a cult. Also to terminate the cults.
