The gathering was a sign of the extent of the revolution in learning now underway
Call it large-scale hatavas chalom. On a Thursday night two weeks ago, hundreds of bochurim from Israel’s leading yeshivos listened as Rav Chaim Peretz Berman, a ram at Yeshivas Ponevezh, asked the following question. “Some decades ago, I was learning Maseches Gittin, and at night I dreamed that I was at beis din, and a husband and wife came. The husband said, ‘I divorced my wife,’ and the wife said the same thing. One dayan stood up and said, ‘There are two reasons to believe that they are telling the truth.’ ”
Rav Chaim Peretz paused, and then challenged the bochurim, “What are the two reasons?”
In the large auditorium in the city of Elad, a full-blown war broke out. Bochurim threw around ideas, and Rav Chaim Peretz accepted some, rejecting others as the the full picture gradually came together, in an impressive display of halachic crowdsourcing.
The scene was a remarkable event by Dirshu, headlined “Sinai V’oker Harim,” intended to mark a new stage in the organization’s efforts to return true bekius – breadth in Torah learning – to its proper place in the yeshivah world.
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