DHM:
I would trust Reish Lakish. I just wouldn’t trust myself to actually be a Talmid Chacham, even if I was one.
Speaking of Reish Lakish, he is one of my favorite people in Gemorah (together with Chanan Bisha). Not for being a BT, but for not leaving any yerusha.
Awesome, truthful shittah.
The difference in my opinion is that Heter Mechira is like opening bottles on Shabbos (also R Shlomo Zalman’s heter)- a big kula but not a radical departure from Halacha. Zionism though, it didn’t start by the frum. We always had a ahava for E”Y but Zionism was a modern creation and you know how some of us feel about that. V’haMaskil Yavin.
Pun Intended 🙂 I can live with that. I’m not bothered by the Zionist angle either way, because as you pointed out before, Zionism is dead (like all the ‘isms before it). And as I pointed out, my point is not about Zionism, but about current people (not Tannaim like Rabbanu HaKadosh (same Gemorah)) being Somech on a “Nes”.