The Israeli Yated Ne’eman this morning published remarks from Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, rosh yeshiva of Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Degel Hatorah, that academic studies for men and women may involve heresy.
“If there is a school lecturer who does not believe in the Torah, it cools off one’s yiras Shomayim,” he said.
“There is no one who is immune,” he added. “In every school of academia, there is a danger. We are talking about…serious things that amount to apostasy.”
The words of the Slabodka rosh yeshiva were publicized part of an information campaign conducted by an organization in recent weeks against what is being called “the ravages of academia.”
“One must distance himself from hearing any talk that includes heresy, even the smallest suggestion of ideas that are contrary to Torah. And if a father says that his daughter is ‘a strong girl’ [and can handle it], it is a serious mistake … The most outstanding young men who are learning, davening, etc, may have thoughts in their hearts [that are contrary to Torah] that no one from the outside even knows.”
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau / Photo: Moshe Goldstein}