Why Naftuli Moster Left Haredi Education Activism | Teshuva

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The opening of this shiur, in 18Forty’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] I am so excited to be sitting with Naftalyster, somebody who I only met in person recently, barring one. We cross each other in the aisle in I think Grandon Essex, a local TX supermarket. But thank you so much for joining 1840 today. >> Thank you for having me. So, I know you've been talking a little bit you've been talking a little bit recently about your own journey. Uh, you had a remarkable interview with Freda Visel, a former guest on 1840. And I wanted to kind of start in the middle of your story because this is part of our series on Tshua. And you've done a remarkable transformation. And I want to really try to better understand the religious context, what you've been through. And let's start in the middle. You you had a storied career as an advocate for storied career as an advocate for secular education inidic schools and you had some remarkable successes, setbacks depending who you ask. >> Uh but in many ways that effort uh was vilified uh not just within the community but within many parts of the observant Orthodox community. >> Right. And recently you you you kind of moved away and I just didn't hear from you for a couple of months and then you kind of resurfaced and openly said that you are

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1. 0:00[Music] I am so excited to be sitting with Naftalyster, somebody who I only met in…
2. 5:36were just you know serving other people's interest and I didn't feel like I wanted to…
3. 11:45have with your religious life? We're still talking pre-occtober 7th. Where are you religiously during this…
4. 18:24>> friends, you know. So we we tried a few of them and it was just…
5. 24:36families, um especially societies whose very goal is to kind of uphold and center traditional family…
6. 30:46disproportionate power, you know, we have to fight them, we have to, you know, undermine them.…
7. 36:54blame them for circling the wagons. I I want to hear a little bit about how…
8. 43:05for." To me, it was all like, "What do you mean if if if they're not…
9. 49:18have preceded for who you should help when someone's trying to like unload their groceries, unload…
10. 55:31too they were too lax with the regulations. And there was a period, you know, between…

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