THE SHLICHUS CRISIS

Posted at mentalblog.com (thread: Simon Jacobson as a free marketer)


...My interest in the definition of the "head shliach" institution is not academic - I know many sincere yungeleit who are unsuccessfully looking for shlichus positions for years! In this situation, yeshivas simply can't keep telling kids that shlichus is the only thing to aspire to, when in reality relatively few of them will ever be able to "go on shlichus"! Most of our kids are by design not trained to do anything else, so as a father I am, naturally, very worried. Simon's free-market thesis appeals to me, but his ideas do not seem practical under the current feudal "head shliach" set-up...

berl, crown heights 04.04.05 - 4:49 pm / Link: #


...in this we have become no better than the misnagdim - every boy there (bar the really retarded ones) thinks he is going to grow up a "rosh yeshiva", every girl - a wife of "Rabbi Akiva". But today we are now no better, just different terminology for the same ugly notion.

:-(

berl, crown heights 04.04.05 - 6:11 pm / Link: #