I don't think perhaps the college I attend is necessarily like this but in my opinion there are colleges out there are like this and why would they care if there's strong character walking around there campus. Perhaps this is why Coles thinks that colleges pay less attention to ones character. I'm not saying that all colleges are like this or that they do not care, but that I do agree that colleges pay less attention to it.
If I were running or in charge of a college I would care. My students character and how they act being a good person or bad is very important. Ones character will get them, me farther in life than how book smart I am or how high my intellect is. Perhaps institutions use to teach their students how to become good and decent people, but now intellect is drilled into students and an overload or information is thrown at you for you to retain and never forgot.
How can you work on building your character if your constantly trying to live up to the student sitting next to you that receives all A's but yet cant be friendly, carrying on a conversation, or just be a good person at heart. Second, a passionate commitment to principle, to the extent that we do not keep it to ourselves but are moved to share it with others, to have others adopt this principle in their lives.
And fourth, the mantra, the values that we repeatedly and passionately invoke, in that way drilling them into our way of thinking and living. Before taking the last step, I want to share two stories. These stories are classic, almost typical, and you have heard dozens or hundreds just like them. He watched as the great Rav looked at one Lulav, then a second, and then settled on a third, which he paid for and took home.
The young man was very surprised. He had already spent hours searching for a Lulav that met his standards, to no avail. And this great Rav found a good one on the third try?! He felt he had just witnessed a miracle. On his way home, the young scholar bumped into a friend of his, a grandson of the Steipler Gaon. Every year before Succos, my grandfather goes out to shop for the Four Species. He comes to a shop, and takes a look at the merchandise. Often, he is less than thrilled with the general quality.
But he realizes that if he — the Steipler Gaon — leaves the shop empty-handed, word will travel that the Steipler was disappointed in the merchandise of so-and-so. And so, he buys one of the Lulavim, and brings it home. At home, he has a whole stack of Lulavim that he has amassed while looking for the right Lulav. Once, on an Erev Yom Kippur, while Rav Yisrael Salanter — then a very young man — was on his way to shul to Daven Maariv, he encountered a known, G-d-fearing man coming towards him.
His sense of fear of the Divine judgment was apparent on his face, and he had tears streaming down his cheeks. Rav Yisrael asked him a question for which he needed an answer, but the man — absorbed as he was in his own concern and fear — did not respond. Why is that relevant to me? You need to pleasantly answer my question, as that is the way of goodness and kindness. These two typical stories underscore a core Torah value.
Far more important than the specifics of this or that law or practice, is the human goodness and greatness that these practices are to mold. When shopping for the perfect Lulav , the Steipler Gaon did not forget to be the perfect person.
While going to meet G-d in judgment, Rav Yisrael Salanter did not want to ignore the people he met on the way there. Samuel Oliner was born in Zyndranowa, in Poland. His family was killed in the Holocaust, but he was saved by a Polish woman who taught him — as a young child — how to pass himself off as a Christian.
As a survivor, he dedicated his life to studying altruism, to understanding why some people — like that Polish woman — risked everything to save the lives of others, while others did not. Towards this end he conducted extensive research. Interestingly, one of the conclusions clearly emerging from the data was that religious upbringing per se was not a significant determinant.
Rather, how religion and values were taught made all the difference. But when they were made to see their religious values as something they could understand and respect, as building a truly internally held value system, then it did move them to be that greater person, the one who would do for others. This too is part of the broader legacy of Rav Yisrael Salanter. In a sense, his battle was to elevate the Torah student and scholar from the storehouse of knowledge and good deeds, to the personality of Torah.
To shift Torah from a to-do list to a vision of what we are to-be. When that is the stated goal, when the objective is both greatness and goodness, then it is unlikely to miss its mark. In so many of the challenges we face, this perspective would give us great insight and motivation to stay on track, to achieve. What do we want to look like as a person? To aspire to be truly proud of ourselves; to be amongst those who bring pride to G-d; to live lives of congruence and consistency.
Our language and conversation needs to be filled with the language of values and principles, deeply held. Values and principles that we measure ourselves up against. Values and principles that we are driven to share. Yamim Noraim Uncovering the Heart. Yamim Noraim Echad- One! Purim, Prayer and the Ratio. Yamim Noraim Making Things Better. Chanukah: Hidden Power. Humility: The Key to a Better Future.
Never Stop Speaking. Shabbos Shuva Robert Coles is a professor emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard who taught classes on morality. Rosh Hashana, The First Day of Teshuva: Principle as Our Personal Measure A very good place to start is to explore the role of Rosh Hashana in the Teshuva process, as it appears that Rosh Hashana is all about establishing and affirming our principles, about knowledge intended to lead to action.
We must have principles to live up to. Our values should be passionately held, shared and discussed. Keep on Repeating it — Until You Believe It There is a novel and eye-opening idea found in the teachings of the Ritva that is very instructive and relevant for us, and may open the door to yet another important understanding in how we can bridge this gap between intellect and character.
If you really believed it, you would act upon it. Do any of us do that? Are any of us real Baalei Mussar? I do not, because I am not. The Last Step: Being vs. Doing In our effort to bridge the gap between intellect and character, to move us to live up to our principles, we have thus far identified four important steps: First, identify principles that do not remain abstract but that we use as the measuring stick with which we look at ourselves.
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