Moshe Krakowski: Why Jews Leave Faith Behind

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

[Music] I am so excited to be sitting with Dr. Mosha Kowski at the OU headquarters. That's where we are right now. You have just completed an absolutely fascinating study that has so much relevance to the work that we've been doing on 1840 and so much relevance to the wider Jewish community. Dr. Dr. Mosha Kowski, thank you so much for joining us today. My you so much for joining us today. My pleasure. So, I want to begin by talking about this study. The study uses an interesting word that not everybody may be familiar with and that studies attrition within the Jewish community. Can you explain just like the basic word? I'm accused very often of using words that not everybody knows. And the second accusation, they're usually happening at the same time that I'm also mispronouncing the words. So, I believe I'm pronouncing that correctly. Attrition. What is attrition? And what was the central focus of this study? was the central focus of this study? Right. Yeah, that's the problem. When you read too much, you don't hear exactly. I pronounced it AI instead of arai. Oh my gosh, my daughter did that. It's uh literally within the last few months, we corrected her. Yeah. So, yes, this is uh Yeah, that's the problem. When you read when you learn how to Yeah. from reading and not from Exactly. Right. Attrition just means uh uh losing losing some number of of in this case people. Uh so um people who grow up orthodox and leave

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2. 6:16we'll talk about when we talk about the study, um, maybe even answer the question, who…
3. 12:27you go about defining what the heck is orthodox Judaism? This is a really really important…
4. 18:36not enough. meaning meaning I know people who follow the but do not believe in anything…
5. 24:51question. I I don't know myself. I really I really don't know. I feel like I…
6. 30:58engine for that, right? One car. And you take it apart. And you look and you…
7. 37:09it's you so it gives you a factor that a you you realize you need to…
8. 43:18like, "Wow, my family is not so observant and this school, my rebby is telling me…
9. 49:29for whatever reason just decided I I just this doesn't make sense. I can't this whole…
10. 55:38network this way, then you buy into the entire system and then this has the meaning…

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