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NEWS
Gedolei Torah Say that Study in Professional Training
Institutes for Girls is Against the Ruach HaTorah
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
Gedolei Yisroel, led by Maran HaRav Sholom Yosef
Eliashiv, shlita, have spoken out recently about the
need to raise awareness on the obligation to safeguard
educational purity of bnos Yisroel by preventing
parents and their daughters from being lured by institutions
offering professional training for girls outside the Bais
Yaakov framework such as Magen and other institutes for
professional training.
Maranan verabonon oppose setting up a rabbinical
committee to head these institutions because these
institutions do not provide chinuch in the true sense,
but merely serve to provide career training. This is
something that ein ruach chachomim nochoh mimenu and
therefore there it is not proper to give them any sort of
rabbinical endorsement, whether direct or indirect. This is
due to their essential nature and also due to the stumbling
blocks they have caused. It is clear that the proper place
for bnos Yisroel is only in Bais Yaakov schools.
Several times in recent years HaRav Eliashiv, shlita,
has pointed out that parents' fundamental responsibility to
their daughters is to bring them up and to educate them in a
pure, uncompromising Torah spirit. Their responsibility is
not limited to concern about their daughters acquiring a
profession and parnossoh. The main objective of Bais
Yaakov educational institutions which operate according to
the guidance of gedolei Yisroel in recent generations,
he says, is to impart yiras Shomayim and education
al taharas hakodesh, while allowing girls to complete
their studies in a manner that will allow them to earn a
living in teaching and similar professions, all according to
the pure daas Torah of gedolei Yisroel.
Setting up institutions for girls that serve as an
alternative for girls in the years when they should be
acquiring yiras Shomayim and a traditional Jewish
education runs contrary to the spirit of Torah--particularly
since these institutions do not provide a chinuch
framework and have caused problems. Gedolei Yisroel
maintain strongly that professional training should not be
through studies towards a university degree and not with any
ties, direct or indirect, to secular academic
institutions.
Therefore, according to the ruling of maranan verabonon
shlita led by HaRav Eliashiv shlita, no Rabbinical
Committee will be set up to lead the "Magen" Institute for
Professional Training and similar institutions, so that
parents and the entire community should know that these
institutions are not under rabbinical supervision. Yated
Ne'eman has published this explanation at the behest of
maranan verabonon shlita to increase public awareness
of the matter.
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