{"id":33806,"date":"2013-10-16T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=33806"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:05:45","slug":"teaching-students-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/teaching-students-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Students, Not Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"homework\"<\/a>Walking into Bnos Yisroel<\/i> in Baltimore, one sees a sign that reads, \u201cTeaching Students, not Subjects.\u201d\u00a0 When the Baltimore Jewish Times<\/i> reported on the school, they found that the school did much more than simply pay lip service to a sentiment many educators would be quick to say they support.\u00a0 Rabbi Amster noted that at Bnos<\/i>, that sense \u201cpermeates everything that we do\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

There are those who might argue that such a \u201csoft\u201d sentiment is fine for a girls yeshiva, but for boys?\u00a0 For boys, one needs a stronger hand.<\/p>\n

I would argue that in this regard there should be no difference between a girls and boys yeshiva.\u00a0 Caring for students is the only way <\/i>to educate all our young people.\u00a0 Fortunately, despite the disturbing trend to hew an ever harder line with any student who does not strictly conform to a yeshiva\u2019s academic and behavior standards, I am not alone in my belief that we do greater harm by our harsh rigidity than by treating each of our students as a precious treasure.<\/p>\n

Every Jewish educator knows, without question, what <\/i>we teach is vital.\u00a0 Fewer seem to appreciate that who <\/i>we teach is at least as much of a gift.<\/p>\n

It would be understandable for the most preeminent Gadol<\/i> to emphasize what we teach when he meets with mechanchim, rebbeim <\/i>\u2013 educators \u2013 at the beginning of the new school year.\u00a0 He undoubtedly wants to emphasize the educational issues and concerns that will confront his teachers \u2013the core curriculum that is to be taught, the pace at which classes must proceed, what is to be accomplished during a z\u2019man<\/i> \u2013 but that was not the focus of the Gaon Rav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman\u2019s recent talk with educators of yeshivot ketanot <\/i>as the school year began.<\/p>\n

According to \u201cChadrei Chareidim<\/i>\u201d (www.bhol.co.il<\/a>), the Rav pleaded with the educators to keep in mind two thoughts as the new school year begins.\u00a0 One, to continually relate to each and every student as a neshama<\/i>, a pure and precious soul.\u00a0 Two, to stop expelling students from yeshivas.<\/p>\n

What kind of message is this to deliver to educators about to embark on a new school year?<\/p>\n

Rav Shteinman continued in his talk by referring to Bava Kamma 62a, as he does in his recently published volume, \u201cLeading with Love\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The Talmudic passage is concerned with a man giving a woman a gold coin to hold but telling her, \u201cBe careful with it for it is silver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rava rules that, should she damage the coin, she would have to reimburse the man the full worth of the gold because the owner will rightly claim that, regardless of the actual worth of the coin, she should not have damaged it.\u00a0 However, if the woman was merely negligent with the coin, she would be responsible only for the value of the silver, correctly claiming that she had only agreed to be responsible for a silver coin (netirusa d\u2019dahava lo kabilsi alai<\/i>) and not a gold one.<\/p>\n

How are we to understand this passage?\u00a0 To put the passage in more contemporary terms, suppose a man gave his friend a locked box to safeguard, telling him that it contained $10,000.\u00a0 Such a sum is not to be taken lightly.\u00a0 The friend would certainly guard it with great vigilance.\u00a0 But what if the locked box did not contain $10,000 but rather $100,000?<\/p>\n

What if the friend negligently left the box on the back seat of a taxi?\u00a0 What would he say when he learned that he was responsible not for $10,000 but for $100,000?\u00a0 He would surely protest that he had never agreed to be responsible for such a princely sum.\u00a0 He would admit that $10,000 is a sum worthy of vigilance.\u00a0 But $100,000?\u00a0 That is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad I known that there was $100,000 in the box, I\u2019d have been even more vigilant!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rav would find his claim that he is not liable for the additional $90,000 to be more than legitimate.\u00a0 But what does all this have to do with our discussion of teachers and students?\u00a0 Rav Shteinman suggests that, in a similar way, every single teacher, rebbi<\/i>, principal of either boys or girls (equally so!) must fully understand exactly what is being entrusted to his safekeeping.<\/p>\n

If a teacher thinks that his task is merely \u201cto teach\u201d \u2013 d\u2019varim peshutim<\/i>, a simple matter \u2013 that it is no great thing to teach, that \u201canybody can do that\u201d he must immediately be set straight. \u00a0\u00a0Children are neshamos<\/i>; they are netirusa d\u2019dahava<\/i>.\u00a0 They are more precious than gold.\u00a0 Do not for a minute think that they are merely silver.\u00a0 They are the most valuable possession of all klal Yisrael<\/i>.<\/p>\n

If a teacher is not able to take on the responsibility of safeguarding such treasure, he shouldn\u2019t!\u00a0 Before setting foot in a classroom, each and every teacher must be clear about the responsibility he are taking on, and the treasure that is being placed in his safekeeping.\u00a0 He must know that to treat any child with less than netirusa d\u2019dahava <\/i>is negligence.<\/p>\n

If each and every teacher is to safeguard his students with such care, how much more negligent is it to expel a student from yeshiva?\u00a0 How much more negligent is it to treat such a soul in such a way that he or she will then \u201cleave the fold\u201d, remove his or herself from our community?<\/p>\n

That teacher should not think for a minute that he will not be asked in the world to come, \u201cWhy did this young man or young woman leave the community?\u00a0 Why is she no longer frum?\u00a0 Why is he on drugs?\u201d<\/p>\n

What will that teacher answer?\u00a0 What can <\/i>he answer?<\/p>\n

And in the gaping silence, he will be told, \u201cif this was your own son<\/i>, would you have thrown him out?\u00a0 For that is what you should have thought at the time.\u00a0 This is like your son, your son<\/i>!<\/p>\n

\u201cResponsibility for children is just as for gold, not silver.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Even more than gold!\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not enough to presume that because a child is attending yeshiva that he or she is safeguarded, that his or her home is filled with yiddishkeit <\/i>or that they are treated with love and respect.\u00a0 There is no guarantee.\u00a0 That is why each talmid <\/i>must we watched closely and with care.\u00a0 The rebbi <\/i>must be mindful of his charges; he must be mindful of everything.\u00a0 More importantly, he must teach with love and compassion, with a pleasant and joyous countenance.\u00a0 The way to treat students is with compassion and mercy not rigidity and anger.<\/p>\n

When I met with the faculties I had the privilege to lead, I always shared with them a simple truth:\u00a0 We all make mistakes.\u00a0 To err is human.\u00a0 And in almost every profession and circumstance, it is possible to make a mistake and then correct it.\u00a0 We almost always have the chance to begin anew.\u00a0 Except <\/i>when it comes to a child or student we turned off by our negligence, inattention, or abuse!<\/p>\n

It is on our heshbon <\/i>to make the lessons sweet for our students; it is on our heshbon <\/i>to safeguard our students.\u00a0 We are not, after all, teaching stuff<\/i>.\u00a0 By transmitting the truths and jewels we teach, we are burnishing the links in a glorious chain.\u00a0 We are touching souls, precious Jewish souls.<\/p>\n

Without those souls, for whom is the knowledge worthwhile?<\/p>\n

When we extinguish the flame of learning in a young soul, it is not easily \u2013 if ever \u2013 relit.\u00a0 There very well may be no second chance.<\/p>\n

There is no more important message a faculty can receive than to nurture that flame in every single student!\u00a0 And yet, even when Rav Shteinman addressed his audience of hundreds of mechanchim – <\/i>educators I can imagine that there were those who listened impassively, all the while thinking to themselves, \u201cOkay, we get it about all the love, compassion, sensitivity, personalization blah, blah, blah.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to talk about all that in the abstract.\u00a0 What about those of us in the classroom?\u00a0 What about us, the ones who have to deal with students who misbehave or act out?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about the student who is immersed in the Internet?\u201d a rebbi asked the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Shteinman.<\/p>\n

Such musings have merit, but it is astonishing to me how much of the ills of society are now blamed on the Internet.\u00a0 Of course the Internet poses many dangers and challenges.\u00a0 But, were there no problems before <\/i>the Internet?<\/p>\n

So, how might Rav Shteinman have responded to any of the possible questions leading to the question of what to do with such students?\u00a0 Would he have quickly and resolutely determined, \u201cOf course throw out the student immersed in Internet! \u00a0Of course throw out the student who acts out!\u201d<\/p>\n

Would he have considered that student to be no more than garbage needing to be removed from the building as expeditiously as possible?<\/p>\n

Or would he have asked, like the recently deceased Rav Ovadya Yosef, the highly respected Gaon and leader of Sefardic Jewry, \u201cWhom are you throwing out? A rock?\u00a0 Some accumulated trash?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rav Ovadya Yosef ZT\u2019L knew the challenge of teaching in a classroom.\u00a0 When he confronted a rowdy, disruptive or uncooperative student in a class, he did not view the student as \u201cthe enemy\u201d but rather as the unique being God intended.\u00a0 He embraced the uniqueness of each of his students.\u00a0 What an upside-down world we have created when Rav Ovadya\u2019s approach strikes us as refreshing and encouraging\u2026 instead of the norm!<\/p>\n

Rav Yosef was passionate in his defense of such students.\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t throw them out.\u00a0 We are dealing with nefoshos<\/i>!\u00a0 This is dinei nefoshos<\/i>.\u00a0 Our Rabbonim<\/i> only addressed dinei nefoshos<\/i> when there was a Sanhedrin, 23 chachamim<\/i>. This is dinei nefoshos<\/i>. You throw him out and what will be with him then?\u00a0 You know what will be?\u00a0 Do you accept responsibility for what he will become?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, you must love him and smother him with love, bnei Yisrael<\/i> whose future is to become gedolei Yisrael<\/i>. To bring them closer with sweet words and this is how we bring them into the Torah fold.\u201d<\/p>\n

In truth, Rav Shteinman similarly responded to the Internet question. Each student is to be considered on an individual basis; for each student there is a need for a shailas chochom<\/i>; each situation demands discussion and analysis with a Chochom<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The most important thing, he emphasized, was to not demean or demoralize (not to be me\u2019zalzel <\/i>) any talmid.<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0Never to dismiss any talmid <\/i>as hopeless, as \u201cnu, meila<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his response, Rav Shteinman showed himself to be a true and absolute gadol<\/i> \u2013 a visionary who could see clearly and respond to the demands of the times.\u00a0 He provided the wisdom of a zakein<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Anyone <\/i>can treat a difficult or misbehaving student as garbage.\u00a0 Anyone <\/i>can just throw him out.\u00a0 But it takes a teacher <\/i>to transform him into the gedolim <\/i>and nashim tzidkanios <\/i>that Rav Shteinman envisions.\u00a0 \u201cWho can know what great tzaddikim <\/i>and tzidkaniyos <\/i>and what great talmidei chachamim<\/i> can emerge from the children sitting right in front of the mechanech<\/i>!<\/p>\n

If a mechanech<\/i> does not realize what treasures sit directly before him, chas v\u2019shalom<\/i>, he may claim that he only agreed to watch \u201csilver coins.\u201d \u00a0But, in fact, he has before him the purest gold.\u00a0 He has before him neshamos kedoshos<\/i>!<\/p>\n

Rav Shteinman was determined that his listeners would truly understand the importance of never dismissing, ignoring, or overlooking any student. \u00a0\u201cLet me give you another example,\u201d he told them, \u201cyou know that Rav Chaim Volozhin established the yeshiva in Volozhin, which existed for exactly 70 years. \u00a0The yeshiva had roshei yeshiva<\/i>, Rav Chaim Volozhiner, and then his son Rav Yitzchok, and then a son in law of Rav Chaim, and another son in law, and then the Netziv.\u201d\u00a0 He sighed.\u00a0 Of the seventy years, the Netziv led it for fifty.\u00a0 \u201cIn other words, Yeshivas Volozhin was all the Netziv.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, the Netziv who had not been particularly well thought of (mi\u2019tchila chashvu alav sh\u2019hu lo kol kach<\/i>) turned out to be very special.\u00a0 Because of the Netziv, all of Volozhin, for 50 years existed and thrived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Give heed.\u00a0 Teach with your heart.\u00a0 Love you students.\u00a0 You never know, the next Netziv may very well be sitting before you in your classroom!<\/p>\n

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Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran is an educator, author and lecturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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