When Does Loyalty to Our Values Require Changing the Way We Transmit Them?
How can the message stay the same while the method changes for a new generation?
This source-based Torah essay contrasts Moses striking the rock in one generation with the command to speak to it in another. It uses that contrast as a model for education: fidelity to values does not always mean repeating yesterday’s method. Claims about twentieth-century Jewish education in America remain subject to historical verification.