Monday, July 7, 2025

Hashkafa Q&A

Hashkafa with Rav Gershon Ribner shlita

 Scenarios exhibiting the nobility of Bnei Torah Terminating unwelcome inappropriate behavior Suffering from a mothering wife Soliciting with dignity and class When your friend's secret is driving a wedge between you and your wife Enjoyment of learning needs maintenance A wife igniting the lost passion for learning in her husband's heart

17 comments:

  1. He always puts the responsibility on the women, maybe the men should start to step up

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    1. As in being a big boy and confronting inappropriate bosses and relatives or anyone else by himself and protecting his wife and better yet maybe even earning enough so she needn't be vulnerable out in the world being preyed upon but at home with her kids

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  2. In this post egalitarian society that modern women grabbed for themselves,they must either take responsibility or share culpability

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    1. They didn't take it for themselves, the kollel system forced it on them

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    2. so then why do all the young working guys wives work too?

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  3. Women working is not a new phenomenon. In the heim, women worked hard, and were often the breadwinners.
    Lakewood did not innovate over here.
    In the US of the 1950s, the goyishe society was patriarchal, and position was defined by money making ability. We are not Goyim, not of the 2020s or the 1950s.

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    1. Not true.
      "Ana eflach"

      Of course, in Lakewood they don't believe in that.

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    2. if you had even learned Maseches Kesuvos you would know that it was always common for women to work outside the house and have maisoh yad. but, of course, anonymous internet trolls don't believe in that.

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    3. Among the lower classes.

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    4. History didn't stop at the times of Chazal. For hundreds of years, in exile in Europe, women worked. We are far from our agrarian Chazal roots.

      If you want to return to the lifestyle of Chazal, don't put it on the woman. Men should work in the fields if they want the women to stay home.

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    5. Ana eflach doesn't mean what you think it does. Learn the Halacha, the two opinions in Tosfos and the final Halacha in the Rema.

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  4. Goyishe society in the 50s wasn't patriarchal,certainly not even close to as patriarchal as our jewish society was by comparison.
    There was however Cold war atmosphere.Goyishe males in the circumstances were drafted & were forced en masse to risk themselves.The basic payback was the GI bill, which virtually only males benefitted from, helping elevate their status.
    Furthermore,in the pre-pill era women needed after a fashion to be more careful or deal with the consequences

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    1. The goyishe 1950s version of Father knows Best was not the Jewish one. Some people push a version of nostalgia and think it is Judaism. Victorian prudishness is not Judaism, just like republican male dominance is not.

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    2. Offer us your better alternative.Instead of hocking or knocking

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    3. Proffer then an another general non-jewish (or even occasionally :( jewish)societal option more in concordance with authentic jewish societal values than those mentioned.Please.By all means.
      Should we go back to the Puritans

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  5. De facto mostly perhaps.Still seemed better than now, & something we should be overall nostalgic for ?

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