Thank you for posting and I can understand your struggle as it is the struggle of all working bnei Torah, including myself. I was just thinking that I doubt those rabbis were really arguing. Maybe they had ideological differences as to whether one should take the Torah only approach or the Torah im derech eretz approach. But ultimately I think what the Bnei Brak rabbi was trying to convey was that those years immersed only in learning helped shape your identity and essence of what you are and how you grow today. Your other rabbi was just making sure you do not think therefore that life is not about growing; rather it is about applying what you gained from those years where you were toraso umanaso, and life does not end after yeshiva. Even someone in full time learning, like the rabbi in bnei brak, has struggles as well as they go throughout life and often the years of the youth which were spent with a single minded focus on learning and nothing else serve as a bed rock for their ability to overcome challenges.
I would conclude that Ashrecha that you have this struggle. Keep on shteiging!
Torah and it's values are like a Foxault pendulum. It looks like the direction the pendulum swings in moves in time. But in reality, the effect is caused by the pendulum strictly swinging back and forth in the same line as the earth rotates underneath.
Yaakov,
Thank you for posting and I can understand your struggle as it is the struggle of all working bnei Torah, including myself. I was just thinking that I doubt those rabbis were really arguing. Maybe they had ideological differences as to whether one should take the Torah only approach or the Torah im derech eretz approach. But ultimately I think what the Bnei Brak rabbi was trying to convey was that those years immersed only in learning helped shape your identity and essence of what you are and how you grow today. Your other rabbi was just making sure you do not think therefore that life is not about growing; rather it is about applying what you gained from those years where you were toraso umanaso, and life does not end after yeshiva. Even someone in full time learning, like the rabbi in bnei brak, has struggles as well as they go throughout life and often the years of the youth which were spent with a single minded focus on learning and nothing else serve as a bed rock for their ability to overcome challenges.
I would conclude that Ashrecha that you have this struggle. Keep on shteiging!
Zev thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback!
I read that you spoke at Machon Lev’s overseas program .Di d you have the Zcus to meet either R Y TRimon or R Shalom Rosner ?
Yes I'm in touch with Rabbi Rosner
Torah and it's values are like a Foxault pendulum. It looks like the direction the pendulum swings in moves in time. But in reality, the effect is caused by the pendulum strictly swinging back and forth in the same line as the earth rotates underneath.