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August 08, 2005
“We Can't Compete with Hollywood”
Is that how all menhalim think? Maybe we have to move the focus away from keeping Hollywood and the world out, and start focusing on competing with Hollywood and the world? Hollywood may spend billions on marketing and research and the world may have many temptations to lure our kids and teenagers, but maybe the Torah COULD compete! Maybe, just maybe, we can try shifting the focus just a little bit from shielding and hiding, which doesn't seem to be working, to coming out and fighting.
The Torah has one thing that all the temptations in the world cannot compete with and that is the truth. Maybe we need to keep that in mind when we face the great challenges in chinuch that we are currently facing. Maybe it is time we realize that in this global and connected world, separation from the world and “the internet” can aid in the fight but is not nearly enough. We have different yetzer haras in our generation than in generations past, but one thing didn't change: Hashem created an antidote to the yetzer hara, and that is the Torah.
Let us start being mechanech our kids with chinuch that is powerful enough to help them overcome the yetzer haras of today.
Posted by notepad at August 8, 2005 08:05 AM
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