Practice of Torah has nothing to do with the religious world. These are two exact opposites.
This is obvious to anyone with an experience. That is to say the principles are opposed one to the other.
One is to concentrate on Jewish rituals in order to get secular Jews to give them money. That is the basic meme of the religious world.
The essence of practice of Torah on the other hand is modesty--to serve God privately without public display and to be self sufficient and to work on one's character trait and keep the commandments.
For example, "Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not steal, etc." The polar opposite of the religious world.
Just to be fair, I have to exclude from this critique authentic Lithuanian yeshivas and their surrounding communities that do make an effort to keep Torah sincerely as it says, and not from any alternative motivations.
This is obvious to anyone with an experience. That is to say the principles are opposed one to the other.
One is to concentrate on Jewish rituals in order to get secular Jews to give them money. That is the basic meme of the religious world.
The essence of practice of Torah on the other hand is modesty--to serve God privately without public display and to be self sufficient and to work on one's character trait and keep the commandments.
For example, "Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not steal, etc." The polar opposite of the religious world.
Just to be fair, I have to exclude from this critique authentic Lithuanian yeshivas and their surrounding communities that do make an effort to keep Torah sincerely as it says, and not from any alternative motivations.
[There was in fact an incident with a group of followers of Rav Nahman of Breslov. They were living in a different city, and in that city the rav was against Rav Nahman. There was at the time some questions about Halacha [Law]. Rav Nahman told them, what ever that rav says is teh law, be sure to do just teh opposite. And in fact what ever law that rav said , the followers of Rav Nahman opened up the Shulchan Aruch of Rav Joseph Karo and saw that the exact opposite of what that rav said is the true law. This incident can be taken as an archetype. What ever the religious say is the law of the Torah, in all likelihood if you open up the Shulchan Aruch you will in general see the exact opposite.
