We have to apply what we have learned into our current societal pace. We have to innovate and we don't have a good precedent that would allow us to copy from this and do that. Before it was easy to adapt something we had from the past, just change it from bronze into the iron age, from clay into plastics. Today it's more difficult because not only must the form change, but the substance and interaction have to change. We don't have the same arrangement of cause and effect that we had 400 years ago.
Innovation has to be post paradigm shift innovation.
It can't be a patch job on the old. In our next offering, Rabbi Schachter will discuss the role of the teacher and the student in education and the integration of the spiritual self with the intellect.