“Serials and fiction stories have done a great job illustrating the extremes and stereotypes, but please don’t forget that there are many, many people in Israel who are living a regular lifestyle”
It was a pleasure to read your article about Rabbi Shaya Cohen. There is little doubt that Rabbi Cohen belongs to the vanguard of contemporary “matzdikei harabbim,” and is eminently worthy of our admiration and praise.
Interestingly, he paid us a visit at the headquarters of Torah Umesorah (TU) before Yom Tov, and we enjoyed a lengthy discussion about his Teach and Reach initiative. What was particularly heartwarming was a demonstration of “Harbeh shluchim laMakom — Hashem has many emissaries.” I mean to say that what emerged from our meeting was that Rabbi Cohen and TU share a common vision, namely of elevating the awareness of fundamentals of hashkafah among today’s talmidim and talmidos.
That objective for TU, as embraced by our Vaad Roshei Yeshivah, began to be implemented a number of years ago as a joint endeavor of TU and its partner, Gateways. Indeed, the agenda is playing an increasingly prominent role among the imperatives for today’s Torah educators.
Over the past seven years, TU’s “Ve’emunoscha Baleilos” program has trained several hundred rebbeim and moros in the basics, to enable them to transmit them further to their students. It was my feeling that this would be a worthwhile message to your readers, so that they might know that our organization is heavily involved in the same sacred task as Rabbi Cohen is. While there are slight nuances that are unique to each of us, the sacred objective is shared.
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