Popa bar abba: I assume you know we are discussing Rabbi Slifkin, not Rabbi Avi Weiss. The opposition to rabbi Avi Weiss is much more principled, as he has made innovations that clearly represent a problem for Orthodox Jewry. As far as rabbi Slifkin goes, when he issued his books some years ago, he was assailed mercilessly and called names that even mechallelei shabbos do not deserve. Yet, his views did not broach any “ikrei hadas” but, as they went against some of the views of present chareidi jewry, he was virtually put in cherem. I maintain that these attacks were self-serving (in your language) because it had to put any idea of a modern world and modern ideas beyond the pale. This applies equally to evolution, age of the world , nautral science and ,most critically, working rather thasn learning for a lifetime. This is why I call these attacks political.
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