It is hard to know how to walk to fine line of keeping Torah and learning Torah but avoiding the insane religious world. Probably the best thing is to learn Torah at home. There is something quite definitely "off" in the religious world.
What is exactly the issue I am not sure of. I was discussing this with David Bronson in Uman after he first got there. We discussed this exact issue for about an hour for a few days in a row and came to no conclusion. At that point he made a suggestion that instead of wasting our time on seems to be an unsolvable problem let's sit and learn gemara. [Talmud]
And that is what we did for a few years until I returned to Israel for a year and a half. That is from where my book on Bava Metzia came from. Then I went back to Uman for Rosh Hashanah and stayed again for an extended period --and that is from where the second book on Shas came from.
But that does not mean the original problem has been solved. The religious world is still just as insane and in fact getting much worse at an exponential rate.
The issue is hard for me even to attempt to approach. But my basic thinking is that it is a matter of balance. That is to learn and keep Torah is important but with balance. Not the insane way the religious world does it.
What is exactly the issue I am not sure of. I was discussing this with David Bronson in Uman after he first got there. We discussed this exact issue for about an hour for a few days in a row and came to no conclusion. At that point he made a suggestion that instead of wasting our time on seems to be an unsolvable problem let's sit and learn gemara. [Talmud]
And that is what we did for a few years until I returned to Israel for a year and a half. That is from where my book on Bava Metzia came from. Then I went back to Uman for Rosh Hashanah and stayed again for an extended period --and that is from where the second book on Shas came from.
But that does not mean the original problem has been solved. The religious world is still just as insane and in fact getting much worse at an exponential rate.
The issue is hard for me even to attempt to approach. But my basic thinking is that it is a matter of balance. That is to learn and keep Torah is important but with balance. Not the insane way the religious world does it.
