Actually I think the protester’s against Slifkin are qiute similar as the prtests against large city Eiruvin.
They both assume a certain trust in Rabbonim that unfortunatley many people have worked to erode.
When top DR’s issue a diagnoses they do not write detailed explanations explaining why they disagree with every shnook out there. Rabbonim take the same view.
Eiruv,
There are certain basics. Every person who has a modicum of knowledge of Eiruvin is aware that Big City eiruvin are fundementally problematic as soon as the city reaches 600,000 people.
Take Jerusalem for example when the eiruv was built there was not 600,000 by any count. Recently there has been some controversy as to whether or not there is 600,000 people and it depends on a variety of factors.
This is a fundemental difference from Brookly which by all acounts contains that numnber. I don’t know what the population of Manchester is.
Slifkin;
He created an entirely new “approach” to Aggadita that at the most is one that was presented by outlying opinions in previous generations, and in all probablilty was actually expressed by no one.
Yet Slifkin claims that his shitto follows in the footsteps of the Rambam.
Really?
There’s a famous section of Rambam written in Peirush HaMishnayos in the intro to Perek Chelek.
In it the Rambam discusses three “groups” of people who learn Aggadita.
One of them he describes are people who percieve themselves to be “scientists” and as a result of that fact that their are “Wise” in thier own eyes they think they know the “reality” better then the Chachomim. The Rambam states these people are “cursed” and “fools”.
This was written by the Rambam centuries after the codification of the Gemorah when science had supposedly advanced quite alot.
Yet the Rambam himself calls the approach advocated by Slifkin and co. one of “fools” and “cursed”.
It’s printed in the back of every Gemora Sanhedrin look it up.
So Slifkin either a) doesn’t know the Rambam (a probablilty) or b) knows it and intentionally ignores it (anotherr eal possibility) you chose.
However again those who argued against his theorie, in line with the Rambam, took for ganted that peo-ple know this along with other things.
Sadly some people seem not to.