Reply To: I just don't get it

DY, this isn’t R Zonnenfeld speaking, this is the RY of an institution that allows and encourages it.

Lipman doesn’t want it forced on the Chareidim. They can choose not to receive public funding – as every yeshiva of every stripe where I live, teaching limudei chol or not, receives absolutely nothing – and teach math and english, or not teach it, and stay open, but support themselves.

DY, I am sorry, but I think that your statement “It really has to do with political realities affecting halachah.” is disingenuous.

If you want to say that in your opinion Daas Torah governs not only all aspects of halocho, but also all aspects of political choice and political dealmaking, then say so. But the mixture of politics and halocho is a dangerous, double edged sword, as many of the chareidi community’s leaders are now finding out.

Torah is eternal and universal, DY, you know that, and if it is halocho lemaaseh for bochrim to enable such study or forbid it(again, either way) then the halocho has to be applied across the board. bochrim in EY aren’t “more equal” than bochrim in USA.

Halocho, as wielded by its foremost guardians, shouldn’t be subject to political expediency, period. Political expediency doesn’t deserve to have halocho as a fig leaf.