04/24/25 - SHIUR 510

Revisiting the WZO controversy | The Tzedaka Generation – But what are our priorities?

Speakers: RabbiAvi Shafran, RabbiShalom Ber Sorotzkin, Mr.Yisroel Orzel, RabbiYitzchok Gottdiener, RabbiShimon Taub

Categories: Eretz Yisroel, Tzedaka, Zionism

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What’s the difference between this and joining the Knesset?
Why’s this difference than the Moetzes pushing Avi Schnall to run specifically as a democrat?
Is this the old age Hashkafic Machlokes between Satmar and Brisk VS the Agudah?
Why did they stop second Seder in BMG for a political rally?

Have we lost our priorities to the glitz and the glamor?
Are we giving large glamorous Tzedakahs at the expense of our local institutions?
Should you give money to an out-of-town Yeshiva or Kollel when your son’s Yeshivah can’t make its budget?
Should we be sending our daughters to seminaries due to the tuition prices?
How much does a Frum Family need today to get by?

Shiur Details

WZO Controversy

(11:27)

Rabbi Avi Shafran, Agudath Israel of America's director of public affairs, Columnist for the Ami

Tzedaka Priorities

(29:41)

Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, Psychologist, Specialized in Conflicts between Parents and Children

(43:50)

Mr. Yisroel Orzel, Longtime President, Yeshiva of Spring Valley

(59:13)

Rabbi Yitzchok Gottdiener, Executive Director, Yeshivah Torah Vodaas

(1:13:34)

Rabbi Shimon Taub, Author of The Laws of Tzedakah and Maaser (Artscoll)

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24 Comments

On the previous podcast you interviewed yeshiva administrators regarding the tuition situation. As a parent I believe strongly that you need to interview the parents who are making the extremely hard decisions to pay the tuitions and hear their side of the story. I am going through the gehenom of trying to pay tuition for my 9 children and I can speak about it for hours on the crisis. I believe it is a bigger crisis than the shidduch crisis. It has been a breaking point and I believe it is not being treated with the severity it is deserved. The people that need to be on your podcast are the parents who are struggling and not the administrators who are biased. The same was handled when the mishpacha magazine did an article and they interviewed the wrong side of the situation. The board members are in an ivory box and you need to give voice to the struggling parent. I look forward to hearing the pain of the parents as I am going through and real painful decisions being made. My son is likely not going to yeshiva next year and my daughters are not going to seminary and I am making very difficult decisions regarding extreme debt for tuition.