After having heard a shiur similar to the one at https://youtu.be/jV2sQvSDjjU my students at YBH had several questions they wanted to ask and matters they wanted to discuss. The questions were excellent and the matters important. This is Part 2 of my responses, with additional questions and issues interspersed.
Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer הרב יוסף גבריאל בקהופר
Jealous... This is an incredible gift for Middle Schoolers to receive.
ReplyDeleteTwo constructive comments:
1- They listened less this time. I know this was a part II, but your next planned talk of this type may need to be spaced out more to keep them special.
2- Maybe you don't tell the girls that their other teacher was "wrong". There should be a way to day you deeply disagree, even that the teacher said something unsupportable by Chazal, without shaking confidence in her authority. The impact is not only destructive to her class, it weakens confidence in the office of teacher altogether. There is enough of that naturally as the students' adolescence will progress.
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But I am wondering what direction you think the causality goes in. You said that a disproportionate number the tzadiqim you know don't drive. But you suggested the opposite causality, that it's the lack of middos decay during driving that contributed to their being tzadiqim.
Asking as someone who last drove 28 years ago, after realizing that someone who was in 5 accidents in the prior 2 years should be behind the wheel.
1. Very true. Part 3 is somewhat better, but I won't do another one of these for a while for this reason.
Delete2. Fair criticism. Very fair.
The causality cuts both ways. :-)