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Re: Discussion topic: How we teach children to relate to non-Jews

June 26, 2016 09:13AM
I feel that our conversation really begins with the distinction of halachik process. In a parallel type of psak like moridin velo maalin regarding non religious Jews, where there has been consensus that it does not apply in our contemporary setting, I am relatively certain that no Modern Orthodox or Dati Leumi institution would feel comfortable teaching a psak of applying moridin. Nor would they even treat it within the range of elu v'elu. It would probably be deemed as inappropriate to even present, especially at school age.

With stam yeinam etc, we have a situation which if your halachik process (in this case Conservative halachik process) enables you to marginalize it, because of ahavta lereeacha and kavod haadam, then we have the opportunity to strengthen those values without complicating the message with halachot which we don't hold of. If you either don't have the halachik device or don't have the halachik tradition to eliminate even derabanan takanot across the board and only in specific localized situations then the halacha / sensitivity discussion can't be avoided and must be taught and struggled with responsibly. Responsibly towards halachik commitment and responsibly towards kvod haadam. Our halachik tradition is not always going to be supportive of simple and noncomplex messages. That is what makes the process of psak so alive and human. It will never and can never be replaced by a computer or algorithm.

Rav Ezra Shapiro
Yeshivat Shaalvim
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