by Shmuel Winiarz Is the “Yeshiva world” too insular? Does its single-minded focus on Talmud and codes stifle its members from exploring the world of ideas? One graduate of Volozhin expressed that very notion in a poem he wrote in 1898, entitled Hamatmid. Chaim Nachman Bialik writes of his profound ambivalence towards the schools of his youth. He expresses his ...

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