Frum Educational Philosophy part 2: Careers and Torah Im Derech Eretz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in the yeshiva center in Berlin for many years and he died in I think 1981 or 1980 if I recall correctly and um there's a very famous letter to a student of his who became a um went out to Korea I don't remember exactly what career it was and it's a letter written in Hebrew but he uses English terms in the middle of the Hebrew letter to precisely pinpoint what he means to say and he says that in our perspective is meaning is understanding of the way things should be. the um uh the uh the when a person has a career it's not considered to be it's a very important letter it's very important to see it's not considered to be a special consider life to be a double life which is he has one life which kind of reproduces he has one life which is the uh the the life in which he makes a living and then he has another life which is a spiritual life where he actually is involved in all sorts of you know things but rather says um says Rev uh Gutner, one is supposed to have a broad life meaning that one's policies and one's uh attitudes and one's a hashem extend not just to the areas of learning or governing but also extend equally and are all part of the same the whole the same hole the to one's career and one's work life and These gives him mushroom. He says there are some people who have two houses. They have a you know house a

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