A Big Lesson in Chinuch: Focus on the Talmid Chacham, Not on the Youth - Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein

HaRav Yitzchak Goldstein, Shlit"a, Rosh Yeshiva of Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael and Chief Rabbi of Mount Zion, Jerusalem and King David's Tomb speaks about an important difference between Yoseif and Yaakov’s other sons, and why the Torah describes Yoseif as a na’ar (youth), which implies immaturity, even though he was a very wise son, who was able to grasp the Torah of Ya’akov (Jacob), and we should learn from this about teaching our children.
For nearly 60 years, Diaspora Yeshiva has been uplifting Jewish men seeking to return to their Jewish
heritage in accordance with the teachings of the Sages of Israel. We believe in and cultivate the
potential of every student not only to return to HaShem and His Ways but to even become Torah
Scholars and leaders of the Jewish people.
As a long-time student of “Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim” under Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, Rabbi Mordechai
Goldstein, ztz”l, who founded Diaspora Yeshiva, established the Yeshiva according to the derech
(way) of Chofetz Chaim, following in the footsteps of the Alter of Slabodka and Rabbi Yisroel
Salanter, the founder of the Mussar (Jewish Ethics / Character Development) Movement, according
to which the Diaspora Yeshiva continues to operate to this day, providing regular mussar lectures in
addition to individual study of mussar texts.
As Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz would continually remind his students, it is even more important to
become a mentch (“a good person”) than it is to become a lamden (analytical scholar) and a great
pedagogue.
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