Torah & Trade – Lancaster Yeshiva profiled in local paper again
By TOM KNAPP, Staff Writer, Lancasteronline.com - Workers building a deck at the rear of 616 High St. had already checked the city building code for height restrictions relating to a neighbor’s fence.
Rabbi Shlomo Tzvi Baden urged them to consult the Talmud, too.
“I’m not a construction guy. I’m a rabbi guy,” Baden, executive director of the Lancaster Yeshiva Center, said Sunday.
“But that is part of what we do, blending a Jewish religious education with real-life work experience.”
The Talmud is a central text of Judaism pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history. It also, Baden said, has sections on privacy rights that could affect construction plans.
And for the workers at 616 High St., Jewish law is an important consideration. All are students, ages 17 to 22, enrolled in Yeshiva, a unique vocational-training program based in Lancaster.
“What we have going here is a win-win proposition,” program principal Rabbi Shaya Sackett said during an open house Sunday.
“We’re giving boys who are not college-bound, who are not particularly academically inclined, an opportunity to learn a trade and to remain a part of the greater community,” he said. “They’re learning skills so they will be productive members of society.”
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