Principles of Torah as opposed to principles of the religious world.
The religious world can be understood as a kind of super-organism that is discussed in Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle.
Jewish identity is a major principle in the religious world because only with that superficial appearance of Jewishness is it possible to make money and gain power over others.
Needless to say this is not a principle of Torah in which Jewish identity means nothing. What matters in Torah is to keep the commandments of God.
In the religious world there is a basic attempt to build a power structure than appears Jewish, but in fact is quite different than Torah. The religious world takes it as a beginning assumption,-- not just that they are better than others and smarter. But that is not it at all. If that was the case, then others might be thought to be good, and the religious world would be better. But that is not the difference. Rather, the religious world assumes that all others are evil, and only they themselves are good.
However, this principle is covered and concealed, since they need money from secular Jews. So there is a kind of pretense that "We are all one happy family."❤
On the other hand the basic guiding principle of the Litvak world used to be based on the Gra and Rav Shach; that is to keep the Torah. The opposite is the "meme" [unit of social information] of the religious world which is how to seem like keeping the Torah. "Looks" is everything.
Since these are so contrary, prefer to be separate from the religious world which is anti-Torah. Do not look religious. Do not lend support in any way to this terrible evil.
What is the reason to to be separate from the religious world? The same reason why one keeps away from a virus so as not to become infected.
[It seems to me to add that the Litvak world itself seems to have fallen from the high ideals of the Gra and Rav Shach. I can not be sure. People in the Litvak yeshivas might be able to be in a better position than I to be able to tell.]
The religious world can be understood as a kind of super-organism that is discussed in Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle.
Jewish identity is a major principle in the religious world because only with that superficial appearance of Jewishness is it possible to make money and gain power over others.
Needless to say this is not a principle of Torah in which Jewish identity means nothing. What matters in Torah is to keep the commandments of God.
In the religious world there is a basic attempt to build a power structure than appears Jewish, but in fact is quite different than Torah. The religious world takes it as a beginning assumption,-- not just that they are better than others and smarter. But that is not it at all. If that was the case, then others might be thought to be good, and the religious world would be better. But that is not the difference. Rather, the religious world assumes that all others are evil, and only they themselves are good.
However, this principle is covered and concealed, since they need money from secular Jews. So there is a kind of pretense that "We are all one happy family."❤
On the other hand the basic guiding principle of the Litvak world used to be based on the Gra and Rav Shach; that is to keep the Torah. The opposite is the "meme" [unit of social information] of the religious world which is how to seem like keeping the Torah. "Looks" is everything.
Since these are so contrary, prefer to be separate from the religious world which is anti-Torah. Do not look religious. Do not lend support in any way to this terrible evil.
What is the reason to to be separate from the religious world? The same reason why one keeps away from a virus so as not to become infected.
[It seems to me to add that the Litvak world itself seems to have fallen from the high ideals of the Gra and Rav Shach. I can not be sure. People in the Litvak yeshivas might be able to be in a better position than I to be able to tell.]
