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Halftime Torah for Haredi Football Fans
“Watch the Super Bowl with your family,” one rabbi advises.
In haredi circles, watching sports is an activity that is generally frowned upon—above all, it is a distraction from the sacred pursuit of Torah study. Yet it is also at least tacitly considered less pernicious than many other forms of worldly entertainment. Enough Haredim now watch the Super Bowl that an Orthodox organization based in New York City, called Chazaq, offers a “Halftime for Torah” consisting of online lectures by popular rabbis and lay speakers. The idea is to get devout Super Bowl-watchers away from the immodest displays of the halftime show, and to make sure they intersperse their football with some Torah study. Ben Rubin describes the idea:
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Halftime Torah for Haredi Football Fans
“Watch the Super Bowl with your family,” one rabbi advises.