{"id":25764,"date":"2010-11-25T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25764"},"modified":"2010-11-25T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T20:34:25","slug":"yeshiva-guy-shares-a-torah-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25764","title":{"rendered":"Yeshiva Guy Shares A Torah Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N8MG9YtaZXg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N8MG9YtaZXg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/frumfollies.wordpress.com\/\">Frum Follies<\/a>. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/dovbear.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/avos-and-mitzvos-response-to-bit-of.html\">Dov Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/onthemainline.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/masses-with-historical-sense-have-needs.html\">On the Main Line blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A YouTube video called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8MG9YtaZXg&amp;\">Yeshiva guy says  over a vort<\/a> has been making the rounds. Incredibly for our little  circles it has 30000+ views in one week. By the J-blogosphere standards,  that&#8217;s like Miley-Cyrus-getting-caught-wth-cocaine-at-a-traffic-stop  viral. Clearly it struck a chord of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason  this was deemed worthy of a public response (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.5tjt.com\/component\/content\/article\/25-halacha\/8797-the-avos-and-the-mitzvos\">here<\/a>)  &#8220;after consultation with Gedolei HaPoskim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The author of the  response, Rabbi Yair Hoffman, does not focus at all on the target of the  video &#8220;Yeshiva guy says over a vort&#8221; since he realizes that the reason  why &#8220;Yeshiva guy says over a vort&#8221; is because this is what he is taught.  Therefore he intuits that the video is aiming for higher hanging fruit,  and responds accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>He summarizes three positions on how  to interpret the Gemara Yoma 28b that states that the Avos (patriarchs)  kept the Torah. Not surpisingly, there are three positions, which he  terms maximalist, minimalist and middle-position.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8fenn2K0ZXg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8fenn2K0ZXg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Frum Follies. Dov Bear. On the Main Line blogs: A YouTube video called Yeshiva guy says over a vort has been making the rounds. Incredibly for our little circles it has 30000+ views in one week. 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