Reply To: better learning from Corona

@N0mesorah – there is no doubt that American and Israeli Jewish educational systems saved a lot of people from assimilation. This worked great as an emergency measure, but I somehow doubt that Hashem is pleased with us using Torah SOLELY as a medicine to save Jewish people, while losing our ability to learn – and follow it – properly.

As to preventing extremists, it is of course an old problem mentioned in Beitzah that Hashem gave Jews Torah to stop us from extremism. Still, you may be under the influence of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy: yes, most Jewish extremists were not shomrim Shabbat, but where did they come from? If I recall correctly the story, Chafetz Chaim did not shake hand with the Rav from the place where Trotsky came from. And what do you call people who are bravely walking around without the masks as not extremists?