Daf Yomi as a symbol of haredi hegemony
May. 29th, 2008 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuI admire the idea of learning Talmud at the rate of one page every day, and I love the idea that people all over the world are doing so on the same page.
Yet I can't help but feel uncomfortable that Daf Yomi was started by and continues to be coordinated by Agudas Israel, an organization that represents an intolerant strain of Judaism that I do not wish to support. At the last Daf Yomi Siyyum ha-Shas, I am told that AI refused to seat Rabbi Lamm on the dais because YU allows for coed classes.
So I intend to resume daily Talmud study, but not on the official DY schedule. Anyone else want to join me? This is easier when it's not one person alone.
Yet I can't help but feel uncomfortable that Daf Yomi was started by and continues to be coordinated by Agudas Israel, an organization that represents an intolerant strain of Judaism that I do not wish to support. At the last Daf Yomi Siyyum ha-Shas, I am told that AI refused to seat Rabbi Lamm on the dais because YU allows for coed classes.
So I intend to resume daily Talmud study, but not on the official DY schedule. Anyone else want to join me? This is easier when it's not one person alone.