Abstract

Rabbi Norman Lamm, who assumed the presidency of Yeshiva University in 1976, sought to clarify the mission of the institution by using as its tagline the phrase Torah U'’Madda–denoting the dual aim of providing traditional Jewish study (Torah) along with a standard college curriculum (Madda, meaning knowledge). It would replace the word “Synthesis,” which generations of students, including Lamm himself, had found vague and confusing. Lamm launched what he called the Torah U'Madda Project, which ultimately included a campus lecture series, an annual journal, and a book entitled: Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Worldly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition. While denying any intention to construct a hard-and-fast institutional philosophy on how to integrate Orthodox Judaism and secular higher education, Lamm insisted that serious exposure to both Torah knowledge and the arts and sciences fulfilled the Torah's mandate to understand and appreciate all aspects of God's world. Lamm's initiative failed, however, because economic conditions induced many students to forsake the liberal arts for vocational and pre-professional courses, and the trend to the right in American Orthodoxy–expressed by rabbis at Yeshiva itself and abetted by the year or more spent at Israeli yeshivot before college–stressed single–minded concentration on Torah study and justified secular education only for the purpose of making a living.

中文翻译：

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托拉·乌玛达（Torah U'Madda）的兴衰*

摘要

拉比·诺曼·拉姆（Rabbi Norman Lamm）于1976年担任耶希瓦大学（Yeshiva University）主席，他试图通过使用Torah U''Madda一词作为标语来阐明该机构的使命，这表示提供传统犹太研究（Torah）和标准的大学课程（Madda，意为知识）。它会代替“综合”一词，包括兰姆本人在内的几代学生都感到含糊不清。Lamm发起了他所谓的Torah U'Madda项目，该项目最终包括校园讲座系列，年度杂志以及一本名为《Torah Umadda：犹太传统中的宗教学习和世界知识的遭遇》的书。。兰姆否认有意建立关于如何整合东正教犹太教和世俗高等教育的坚定体制哲学的意图，但他坚持认为，认真学习摩西五经知识以及艺术和科学都满足了摩西五经的使命，即理解和欣赏摩西五经。上帝的世界。然而，Lamm的倡议失败了，因为经济条件导致许多学生放弃了职业和预科课程的文科，以及美国正教的右翼趋势-由Yeshiva本身的拉比教士表达，并教at了一年或以上的教spent。以色列人在大学时代开始专心致志地专注于摩西五经研究和合理的世俗教育，只是为了谋生。