Yeshivish

But at least they're saying – The Torah's shot, the simple plain meaning, doesn't tell us what should happen when someone strikes a person.

And the only way we can learn out, to use a Yeshivish phrase, is to make an analogy based on the commonality of the word strike.

To a context where it's explicitly clear what you do when a striking happens, and that's the context of striking an animal.

And what's explicit there is pay.

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I had an Orthodox, a non-Orthodox, I had an Israeli type of guy, I had a Yeshivish guy, so they're hearing the same piece.

And you do like the gentle code-switching.

Yeah, exactly.

And that's a division into three different subgroups, subgroups.

If you want, one of them is known as the Litvish or Yeshivish, often in English.

These are those who are not Hasidim, Misnagdim, some call them, and they represent a kind of Yeshiva-centered society.

where everything revolves around the flag of Torah study, which becomes the ultimate kind of value that stands at the center.

"One shows respect by not creasing the covers, the other through dog ears and scribbles.

In Yeshivish culture, we find both reflected.

You never lay hands on the klaf." Klaf is the term that we use for what we write down the Torah on.

A Torah scroll is written on klaf.

So the poem says, "In Yeshivish culture, we find both reflected, both showing respect by being very careful and through dog ears and scribbles.

You never lay hands on the klaf.

For Torah scrolls, taking great care means respected.

And that is also mostly Novardok, but to a certain extent, even Kelm and Slabodka too.

Um, in the Haredi/Yeshivish ideology, outlook, and education, there is a soft, subtle influence of the Mussar movement.

And I wanna elaborate on this point.

Yeshiva education has been institutionalized.

I'm aware that in America it's different.

I'm talking for a minute about Israel, on the Haredi community in Israel.

Then I believe that many values and ideas which were radical Novardok ideas at the turn of the century, of the 20th century, are now the standard Haredi Yeshivish.

Not the Hasidic, uh, Haredi community in Israel, the Yeshivish, the Litvish, whatever you wanna call it, Haredi community in Israel, in their approach to Yiddishkite.

... is the same as-

That's why, that's why very often I, I sometimes have a kehillah, they say that, they, they say they wanna chose, uh, choose, they wanna now become Yeshivish, they don't wanna do the k- the, the, the kol poshet, they want to do, uh, k- the k- the kol shofar, they wanna do a hutu.

I say, "Don't change.

Just stay with what you've got." The other way around is not so simple.