Avi Shafran writes about the mostly positive coverage of the Siyum HaShas.
And then there was a television reporter’s puzzlement at my response to his
most basic question about the Siyum: “Could you tell me what’s happening
here?”
It was every reporter’s first question that evening, and my stock short
answer “A celebration of Torah study” seemed to bewilder him. “What do you mean
by ‘study’?” he asked. “And why is it being celebrated?”
He wasn’t being difficult, it was clear. He simply couldn’t wrap his head
around the idea of study as anything but the means to an end. One studies to
pass a test, he (I think) was thinking, for a diploma, to advance a career. But
celebrate study? What was this study meant to lead to?
Read more: http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2012/08/14/what-was-happening-there/
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