Dennis Prager has an idea about the difference between left and right.
How do you judge America
My basic idea of how to improve the USA is by learning Torah. That means the Oral and Written Law [Old Testament and Talmud]. For Christians I recommend learning The Torah [Old Testament], plus Augustine and Aquinas.
This was Reb Shmuel Berenbaum's idea. Whenever he was asked a question about almost any issue in society his answer was to learn Torah and not to speak Lashon Hara [slander].
In my first yeshiva I gained two important ideas. Bitul Torah --that is bitul Torah is a bad thing. [That means not learning Torah when one can is a sin. This idea actually comes from the Talmud itself. In the Talmud Yerushalmi it says that Bitul Torah [not learning when one has time to learn] is equal to three other sins of the Torah that are the most serious. Also I learned there the idea that every word of Torah is a mitzvah in itself.
How do you judge America
My basic idea of how to improve the USA is by learning Torah. That means the Oral and Written Law [Old Testament and Talmud]. For Christians I recommend learning The Torah [Old Testament], plus Augustine and Aquinas.
This was Reb Shmuel Berenbaum's idea. Whenever he was asked a question about almost any issue in society his answer was to learn Torah and not to speak Lashon Hara [slander].
In my first yeshiva I gained two important ideas. Bitul Torah --that is bitul Torah is a bad thing. [That means not learning Torah when one can is a sin. This idea actually comes from the Talmud itself. In the Talmud Yerushalmi it says that Bitul Torah [not learning when one has time to learn] is equal to three other sins of the Torah that are the most serious. Also I learned there the idea that every word of Torah is a mitzvah in itself.
