Torah World-Wide

I formally apologize for ranting in my last post, but I'm still stupefied by people's chosen ignorance and outright bias. Moving forward, I have one of the most interesting topics in the world to discuss: Torah.

Torah has been copied and transmitted for two thousand years and not a letter has been written in error (the Dead Sea Scrolls help historically collaborate that fact). From Israel to China and Europe to Africa,  Torah is the same world-wide. But one thing I have been noticing in seminary, is that it is not taught and learned the same world-wide.

I have been having trouble in seminary this year and not in the typical way. When learning Torah in Israel, I breathed it in. I absorbed it through the air, through the land, through classes, teachers, and friends. I absorbed it at an exorbitant pace. But here in America, it is not the same. It feels like it has become a book. Not a way of life. And I have been having trouble adjusting to the differences in learning.

I love my classes and teachers, but in no way is it comparable to the learning in Eretz Yisroel (Jerusalem, nonetheless). Before coming to America, people had warned me that an hour of Torah learning in Israel is equivalent to studying a day in America; that a day of studying Torah in Israel is equivalent to a week; that a week of studying in Israel is a month of study in America. And how right they were!

Luckily, I feel that I am in the best seminary in America (Ateres Naava). The students are incredible (and incredibly diverse), the teachers are phenomenal, and the classes are engaging. While the learning is not as easy and as encompassing, I'm happy with the choice to continue my Jewish education and bizrat Hashem it will never end.

She's of the Brainwashed and Backwards

(Warning: this is a rant of the worst kind. Beware if you are easily offended.)

I PROMISED myself I would not write a blog on this. I PROMISED myself I had moved past this and would be politically correct. I PRAY that I'm not about to make a chilul Hashem for publicly venting, nor practice avodah zara in the name of anger. BUT I AM FURIOUS!

When will the American youth realize they have been indoctrinated more than any jihadist? When will they wake up from their perpetual sleep and realize they haven't been told the truth? When will they figure out their answers to life were misled by asking the wrong question? Or worse yet, not asking any questions at all!!!

I am angrier than any metal band screaming about injustice into the microphone. I am angrier than protestors out in the rain. I am so furious I feel my heart racing, wanting to implode.

I am of the ones who have washed my brain, clean. And if backwards means opposite of where this generation is going, count me in! 

I am so sick of people calling me brainwashed, as if they haven't ascribed to the biggest farce of them all: the 'american machine.' Even the rebels have a box of their own.

Democracy? Why is it the best form of government? Look at the Arab Middle East- totalitarianism was working much better. 

Capitalism? Why is it the best economic system? There are people dying from hunger in the wealthiest countries!

Feminism? Who said men were the ideal? Maybe they should emulate women- wear skirts and be expressive! That will show you your lopsided equality!

Am I the only one that thinks all these "isms" are being perverted and worshipped like gods?! 

Even Judaism has gone into the wild, we are no longer a UNITED NATION and instead a DIVIDED RELIGION. Who gave YOU the right to change our Torah, pervert it and preach it?! And I'm NOT talking about the Christians and Muslims...

I'm furious at the generations who refused to wake up and ask questions. Why are you no longer fighting for truth? When did comfort and connivence become placebos?

I'm aggravated because if I see one more post insinuating Orthodox Jews are backwards, brainwashed, and archaic, I'll go postal.

When did complacency become a placebo for the truth?

When did our youth stop to ask if what they are being taught is right?

When will America realize they have been indoctrinated? 

When will they wake up and stand up? 

When will they figure out their answers to life were misled by asking the wrong question? 

....Or worse yet, not asking any questions at all!!!

I am of the ones who have washed my brain, clean. And if backwards means opposite of where this generation is going, count me in! 

gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... I'm losing sleep over this... I'm going into Kiruv