Every group has some social meme it is founded upon. Sometimes it is a positive thing and sometimes not. This is the reason I mention the Lithuanian yeshiva world often in a positive light since the basic social meme [the set of core principles] is to learn and keep Torah. All other groups in the religious world are defined by things they hate. For example the very religious in the Jewish world could not care less about Torah. What they hate is hate defines them. They hate secular Jews. They hate the State of Israel. They hate Christianity. And they love the money of secular Jews, They often have some central object of worship that is not the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
[The Lithuanian yeshiva model at least in the form I saw in New York is amazing. The energy of Torah that fills these kinds of places is astounding. When you are a part of it you really live in order to learn and keep Torah.]
The great advantage of the Litvak [Lithuanian] yeshiva model is there is a correspondence between what people are doing and what they think they are doing. In that way it can be called true. In the religious world however there is a kind of disconnect. What people are doing has no connection to what they present to others what they are doing or what they themselves think they are doing.
[The Lithuanian yeshiva model at least in the form I saw in New York is amazing. The energy of Torah that fills these kinds of places is astounding. When you are a part of it you really live in order to learn and keep Torah.]
The great advantage of the Litvak [Lithuanian] yeshiva model is there is a correspondence between what people are doing and what they think they are doing. In that way it can be called true. In the religious world however there is a kind of disconnect. What people are doing has no connection to what they present to others what they are doing or what they themselves think they are doing.
