Yeshiva

Danny Saunders is just like any other kid who feels forced into doing what his dad wants him to do. Throughout the book Danny is forced to study, learn, and reiterate knowledge of the Talmud to practice his Hasidic faith. His father, Reb Saunders, does not even speak to him unless it is about the Talmud or the study of it. Danny is conflicted with his traditional way of religion and his new found love for psychoanalytic. However with his love for psychology, he soon becomes more modernized with religion instead of his once traditional way of it. Throughout the book, the author, Chaim Potok, shows the transitions in numerous ways in the character Danny Saunders. In the beginning of the book, Danny’s softball team is described by Reuven, the main character, by the looks of their appearance. Reuven states that they are all uniform with their traditional ear locks and closely cropped hair. This appearance to Reuven makes him assume they are very traditional Jews. However as the game progresses, Danny’s softball team talked a lot of smacked to Reuven’s team which is not very traditional. The root of the smack talking was because Reuven’s team were not Hasidic Jews. Danny and his team disapproved of the other teams view on the religion. This then led to Danny’s team taking their aggression out by beating up on Reuven’s team. This game is very important because it gives the read a sense of what Danny was like before he became close friends with Reuven. As the book progresses…

For any human being to fully reach his potential, the support of all those around him is crucial. This is especially true and important in relation to a child, who needs those around him to help him understand what he is capable of, and support him in working towards and reaching that potential. His environment, the community around him, school, and family, are all pieces that need to be joined together to best help the child. However, there is often a struggle in properly connecting all these…

Danny and Reuven are two young teens that met while they were playing ball on opposing teams. Without knowing each other, they detested one another and it came to the extent that Danny sturdily hit the ball and it stroked Reuven 's eye. This was just the beginning of what soon would be their incessant friendship. Danny visited and despondently apologized to Reuven for having felt hatred towards him. After a couple of visiting, Danny and Reuven both feel sorry and they become close friends…

This paper will look to analyze why certain Jews in the Ultra-Orthodox movement decide to defect from their upbringing. It will examine what commonalities, if any, there are between defectors, in leaving their community. The transition between a religious and secular life is dramatic, confusing, and lonely. What happens after one decides to make the switch and leave their community? What are the major struggles they face during and after transition? Do all Jews that defect become completely…

David Einhorn (1809 – 1879) 1861-1866 Senior Rabbi at Keneseth Israel David Einhorn was born in Diespeck, Germany November 10, 1809. At the age of 17, he earned his Rabbinic ordination from the Rabbinic school of Fürth in Bavaria, Germany; the center for Jewish learning at this time. He continued his studies at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich and Würzburg. He later held the position of Chief Rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (in Northern Germany). In 1852, he was called to lead the Reform…

throughout the world. His second great idea was to make a universal yeshiva in Poland, one that would be different from other yeshivas. Not only would the students be top quality inside and out, but their building would be too.Yeshivas in Europe, for all the greatness they represented spiritually, were not architectural masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination. It was not like today where yeshivas in Eretz Yisrael and the United States have nice buildings. They even have dining rooms (with…

The boys of Viznitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak went to help their Rabbi clean his house for Passover. While the boys were working a dish broke. The Rebbetzin was very upset and asked which boy did it. The Rabbi heard the question and came running from the next room saying in a joking manner, "don't tell!". The boys learned that honesty isn't always the proper way. Knowing who broke the dish wouldn't solve the problem anyway so there's no gain from embarrassing him. Having learned this important…

Produced in the late 1930s, Peretz Hirschbein’s The Vow and S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk follow similar storylines with acute differences that portray a vast array of thematic messages to the audience. In The Vow, Hirschbein depicts two close friends in yeshiva who took an oath that their children would marry. As time passes, the two children, Jacob and Rachel, are born. However, they live vastly different lives. Jacob is sent to the prestigious Vilno to study the holy scriptures and commentary of the…

Kabbalah is basically the study of the Torah, to uncover the deeper, hidden meanings. Once the providence of elite rabbinical scholars with years of yeshiva training, it was assumed that only they could decode God's answers to the existential questions of man. Kabbalah's teaching were first written down in the 13th century, in a collection of books called the Zohar. The founders of the Kabbalah Centre, Philip and Karen Berg, did something revolutionary; they opened ancient Jewish mysticism to…

against each other Danny's team are Hasidics and Reuven's team are modern Orthodox yeshivas. During the game is going on Danny adds that he told his team that they’re going to kill “you apikorsim this afternoon” meaning that this is more than just a baseball game. It may be a symbol for war since the teams have different views on some topics making them be separated into two different “cliques” for example. Later in the game Reuven threw a fastball pitch to Danny and as he hit it, it went…