After a week filled with the revelation of atrocities in the state education system, the Ministry of Education took the surprising step of implementing the evolution curriculum in schools.
The children will learn the theory of the man who believes that their ancestors came from the ape, which may provide an explanation for their behavior, which sometimes becomes animalistic and not human.
In the Torah education system, on the other hand, students prepared themselves throughout the days of counting the Omer for the occasion of receiving the Torah, seven weeks of correcting manners, improving relationships between people, and studying the Book of the Apostates in preparation for the Day of the Giving of the Torah, since "the way of the land preceded the Torah.".
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Two peoples, in one country.
One educational system comes to recognize the theory of evolution after its students justify it, and a second educational system comes to the holiday of receiving the Torah after its students prepare for it properly.
Which instinctively brought to mind the well-known story of a great yeshiva head who traveled abroad with his son, when the then-director-general of the Ministry of Education, who was bald, sat next to him.
During the flight, the secular man noticed that the son of the yeshiva head never left him for a moment, taking care of all his needs and also checking that the headrest was adjusted properly. He couldn't help but ask, "Honored yeshiva head, how do you explain that in your country there is such a high level of respect for father and mother, and in our country the children don't show any respect for their parents. Your son is next to you the entire flight, taking care of you, while my son doesn't even bother to pick up the phone and ask how I'm doing?"
The head of the yeshiva answered him: "In our country, we teach that man is the creation of God's hands, and our ancestors are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and hence every child respects his father because he is closer to the glorious past of the Jewish people. In your country, on the other hand, we teach that man originated from the ape, and your ancestors are closer to the ape than to the progressive man, and hence we should sanctify the past more and flee from the past. So how do you want your son to respect and appreciate you, since you are closer to the ape than to him...""
When I first heard the story, I thought it was too extreme: Does anyone really teach their children that they descended from apes? After all, even the best scientists have rejected the theory of evolution, and Darwinism has not taken on a significant place in our lives?
It turns out that after the Ministry of Education's announcement this week, this story takes on a stronger and more real meaning.
At the time of receiving the Torah, it is said, "And the name of Israel was established against the mountain," Rashi interprets, "And the name of Israel was established - as one man with one heart." The Torah was given to the entire Jewish people, to the poor and the rich, to the Sephardim and Ashkenazim, to the secular and the religious.
It was not only the Haredim who stood at Mount Sinai and received the Torah, the Torah belongs to everyone, and everyone has the right to educate their children on the values of the Torah and Jewish tradition. In times like these, when the state education system is going bankrupt, crime is entering the schools, and students are losing their humanity on the road to Darwinism, it is time to make a decision and transfer the children to Torah schools, to instill in them Jewish values of good character and decency, to connect with the glorious past and continue the lineage of our ancestors with faith and pride.
