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Toraso - Sruli Karsh - Emunas Chachamim
- Shua Brown
- Jun 30
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 30
In this presentation Sruli brings us through his journey in Emunas Chachamim! Very powerful!
As he mentions, not quite the regular Toraso, but very interesting and important. Some of his points are actually very "Toraso" related.
In reality this is also a Sugya, and I am sure we can even do a deep dive into it one day. For now, hear his points and let us all know what you think. We can all shteig from this for sure. Don't be afraid to say what you think- like Sruli said he wanted this to be real. And blunt is his middle name.
- Sruli thank you very much for sharing that presentation. While watching your presentation I found myself feeling sad angry and ultimately inspired I felt sad because you had to suffer and struggle because of what seemed to be terrible malpractice . I felt angry for this was not just an example of a teacher causing their student pain but it was a teacher whose job it was to teach the students how to think taking the one kid who was thinking correctly and trying to train him to think incorrectly. On top of that by being reckless with his words he manufactured a problem in your brain that wasn't even there. In the end I was left feeling inspired…
Thanks Sruls...firstly based on what you are saying you are ahead of the game in so far as your ability to learn if you wanted to take the time and apply yourself, you think (as Shua pointed out) the way a trained learner should, asking the right questions and with the some guidance or a good chavrusa you can deep dive most any sugya! Next, I can relate to the feeling of attack, mostly from adults but even when not, my son Eitan often asks questions that to him are literally curiosity or genuine confusion or wonder, for example we learned the mishna in perkei avos where Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai asks his talmidie to go out and see right derech…
Thank you Sruli for sharing from the heart!! Bravo!!
As long as you are giving a heads up to teachers and parents I wanted to add that sometimes the teacher or parent is responding to the tone of the question or the body language of the questioner. They believe they are witnessing disrespect or lack of emunah and you are sharing that in truth that is often not the case at all. The student themselves may not even realize that that is the impression they are leaving.
As a teacher or parent you can’t be threatened by a question no matter the tone. While taking the question seriously you are allowed to show the questioner, who is often a child,…
Wow! That was powerful!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. I wanted to share a few points.
Firstly, I agree 100 percent that any questions one has should be addressed fairly. I always like to say if someone has a question – it’s a question until he has the answer whether the questions is “good” or not. I LOVE questions. Questions are one step closer to clarity and as some scholar once said “Clarity is our friend”.
It is true that there are some questions the Gemara says we don’t discuss, but none of the types of questions you mentioned come anywhere close. In learning we need to ask. We should ask. One of the questions, for example,…