Comments on: Shylock in Jerusalem http://torahideals.com Seeking direction in a misdirected world Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Rosenbaum http://torahideals.com/essays-and-imaginings/shylock-in-jerusalem/#comment-284 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:50:13 +0000 http://torahideals.wordpress.com/?page_id=91#comment-284 Interesting take on Merchant of V. I read it in Yeshiva (high school), though it wasn’t in the curriculum. My impression was exactly yours – not only was WS not engaging in vicious anti-Semitism, he was portraying the injustices Jews suffered under Christians back then.

Yiyasher Kochacha.

]]> By: torahideals http://torahideals.com/essays-and-imaginings/shylock-in-jerusalem/#comment-36 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:11:00 +0000 http://torahideals.wordpress.com/?page_id=91#comment-36 Thank you for your lovely note. No chutzpah. But you don’t owe it “all” to Shakespeare. Many people and events led you to where you are. I’m gratified I could play a part.

]]> By: A Student http://torahideals.com/essays-and-imaginings/shylock-in-jerusalem/#comment-35 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:28:41 +0000 http://torahideals.wordpress.com/?page_id=91#comment-35 I started reading your article, out of curiosity, and I just couldn’t stop. I find it ironic that, just as Shakespeare taught you how to think and to go beyond the “pshat” of the words themselves, you have taught me to think and reason through Torah, which has become the lens through which I view the secular, “Shakespearian” world. I was truly debating-am currently debating-whether I should actually submit this comment or not. The chutzpah of a student to think s/he can casually “chat” and argue with someone who has taught her so much about life! But there is something about this article that really resonates with me, perhaps because of my love for looking for hidden meanings in things, perhaps because of the long journey you have made to Torah, one which I have taken for granted. If someone were to ask me what I learned in high school,I would tell them I learned how to think. I learned how to turn a critical eye on the world. I learned not to simply accept theories as fact, but to be willing to reason, and possibly dismiss. I learned to take what I was being taught and bring it with me into the world, so it would influence my actions everyday even when I was not in school. What does this have to do with anything? Because learning of this sort can only happen, I believe, through example. When a teacher loves to learn, he/she infuses the students with the same love, and when a teacher believes-no, LIVES, what he/she teaches, somehow it becomes a part of the students’ lives as well. I really and truly appreciate everything you have taught me both by instruction and example. And to think-I owe it all to Shakespeare!

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