Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32862/k.18.2.1
The History of Discipleship in Judaism: From a Biblical Commandment on the Individual to Rabbinic Regulation on the Establishment of Public Jewish Educational System
Kotel Dadon
orcid.org/0000-0002-3542-3754
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This article deals with the history of discipleship in Judaism and its transition from an individual obligation to a public education system. The article is divided into three main sections: The first section discusses the centrality of education to Torah study in Judaism as well as the Jewish legal concept of “educational obligation” as opposed to the modern legal concept of “right to education.” The second and central section examines the development of the Jewish obligation to educate – the transition from private to public education. The author analyzes the various Talmudic regulations that led to this transition and the relationship between them. At the end of this section, the author discusses the funding structure of the public education system and the right of parents to choose the educational framework for their children. In the third section, the author emphasizes the distinctiveness of Jewish education as the supreme value of the pure intellectual study of the Torah, which refers both to financial interests such as the teachers’ right to strike in Jewish law, and to dedication to study in times of severe hardship and darkness such as the time of the Holocaust. For this research, the author analyzes various Jewish sources, from the written Torah and the oral Torah. From the Talmud, the Mishnah, the Midrash, and rabbinic responsa from the Middle Ages to modern times. Much of this literature has been translated from Hebrew and Aramaic.
Keywords
education; Jewish; Rabbi; Talmud; Torah
Hrčak ID:
322649
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Publication date:
23.11.2024.
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