What if anyone could open a place with classes and a call it a "yeshiva"? Then you would never be able to tell it it had anything to offer. That is the situation today.
The fact that there are so many places that go by the name "yeshiva" means that people end up in evil cults and places where the so called teachers know nothing.
You could learn Torah at home. Get yourself the Talmud with the Soncino English Translation. Then go through the whole Talmud with Tosphot, Maharasha, and learn the R. Akiva Eiger and Rishonim (First authorities ) and Achronim (later authorities).
But I believe book studies lack the human interface with other students offered through a legitimate yeshiva and student community as well as with the teaching staff.
Going to straight, legitimate yeshiva is one of the phases of many young people's life learning processes by living through Torah.
You can be self taught in Torah to some degree. But without an expert, it is hard to get very far. And nowadays the insane religious world presents itself as an expert, when in fact they are usually members \of some Jewish cult, and know nothing about Torah.
Outside of a very few legitimate yeshivas (Ponovitch, Brisk, Mir and schools based on that model) the entire the insane religious world consists of frauds.
Unless I know that they learned in a straight Litvak yeshiva I will not go anywhere near an the insane religious world under any circumstances. Even to hear the Megilah. If the only place in town is a cult then you are not obligated.
The fact that there are so many places that go by the name "yeshiva" means that people end up in evil cults and places where the so called teachers know nothing.
You could learn Torah at home. Get yourself the Talmud with the Soncino English Translation. Then go through the whole Talmud with Tosphot, Maharasha, and learn the R. Akiva Eiger and Rishonim (First authorities ) and Achronim (later authorities).
But I believe book studies lack the human interface with other students offered through a legitimate yeshiva and student community as well as with the teaching staff.
Going to straight, legitimate yeshiva is one of the phases of many young people's life learning processes by living through Torah.
You can be self taught in Torah to some degree. But without an expert, it is hard to get very far. And nowadays the insane religious world presents itself as an expert, when in fact they are usually members \of some Jewish cult, and know nothing about Torah.
Outside of a very few legitimate yeshivas (Ponovitch, Brisk, Mir and schools based on that model) the entire the insane religious world consists of frauds.
Unless I know that they learned in a straight Litvak yeshiva I will not go anywhere near an the insane religious world under any circumstances. Even to hear the Megilah. If the only place in town is a cult then you are not obligated.
