Gil Student recently gave a presentation at the Rabbinical Counsel of America (RCA) convention about What a Rabbi Needs to Know about Blogs. Gil has also posted the Power Point from his presentation.
In his section on What Blogs a Rabbi Must Follow, Gil was kind enough to include Beyond BT in the Inspirational Section along with two of our contributors Rabbi Brody at Lazer Beams and A Simple Jew.
I think this supports a thought I had after seeing Aish’s Inspired movie, which is that every BT has a story worthy of being in that movie. This is mainly due to the fact that going from a me-focused existence to a Hashem-focused existence is the biggest change a person can make in their life and that story can’t be anything less than awe-inspiring.
But it doesn’t stop here, we must go Beyond BT, since the transition to a Hashem-centered existence is never completed. We may have scaled the mountain, but the journey is far from over and we still need loads of inspiration from one another on the posts and in the comments to help continue to fuel our progress in Torah, Avodah and Gemillas Chasidim.
We are always looking for new inspirational voices to be regular or guest contributors. So please email us at beyondbt@gmail.com with your insights and stories of inspiration.
Mark
most community’s will not let you be a switch hitter. Chose 1 path , for the other path is wrong!
Are there any switch hitter bt’s out there? If so where? or maybe abetter question Are there any tolerant ffb’s out there? If so Where?
helpless hoping
it’s all Torah no matter how you get there
100% and please forgive me if I implied otherwise.
And I am pretty much in agreement with Rabbi Schiller’s post from the early days of BeyondBT (December 2005) in which he said:
…that many BT’s (maybe some FFBs too?) may need to do some derachim-combining. In other words, we may need take bits and pieces of the various paths in avodas Hashem and combine them to produce our individual mix.
mark – look at it this way – in the back of the mishneh b’rurah there’s a luach of roshei teivos (a list of used abbreviations)- in the gimel column side by side are the GR’A and the GR’Z – the bottom line – it’s all Torah no matter how you get there :)
Moderated blogs have a framework for keeping out lashon hara and motzi shem ra, but only if the moderators overcome their natural desire to excite the reader. Torah law applies whether or not its application makes the blog boring for some.
Unmoderated or wrongly moderated blogs are a major problem when the bloggers in charge and their readers have axes to grind.
Some of these blogs may even be assur to participate in or view (assuming that casual use of the Web is not forbidden in general, which is a controversy in itself!!).
Moderators often post statements of principle as to what content they will include or exclude, but they have to follow through.
Rabbi Simenowitz,
That’s Machshava 101.
Not that there’s anything wrong with an inner chosid coming out. In fact I’ve been working on the “understanding emotions in avodas Hashem” sugya for the past few months and so many of the roads lead to chassidus.
But I hope you’ll still love me if I tell you that the inner Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan in me says that I will be standing still during Shomoneh Esrai for the foreseeable future.
“going from a me-focused existence to a Hashem-focused existence” – now your inner chosid is REALLY struggling to get out :)