Having the audacity to categorize talmidei chachomim who you disagree with in such a manner as nishtdayangesheft and cherrybim do reveals that in almost 2000 years, too many of us have done NOTHING to bring sheleimus to am Yisroel and bring Moshiach tzidkeinu bimheira biyomeinu. Nothing.
I’m not a chosid of R Weiss, nor a particular fan of YCT. I’m not beholden to YU, nor to Hesder yeshivos or their roshei yeshiva.
I’ve had, b’h the opportunity to interact with some of the people on the advisory board, such as R’ Sperber, with some of the leadership of YU, including R Schachter R’ Tendler and R Lamm in his time.
I had the extraordinary experience of being fahered by R’ Aharon Lichtenstein – but also of meeting with the the Lubavitcher Rebbe zl, R’ Shlomo Halberstam the Bobover zl, with R Adin Steinzaltz, among several others.
Why do I bring these gedolim up? I’m not doing it to name drop. I am sure that there are many here who have spent their lives under the shade of atzei chayim of great lomdus.
I mention them because I recognized in meeting them that ALL of them had a number of things they have – had in common. There was a sense of peace, of sheleimus, that could be seen, heard, and felt when listening to them talk Torah; There was a genuine sense of brocho when they asked about or responded about personal or familial issues. There was a light in their eyes. ALL of them.
I’m not a chabadnik, but I am bothered by those who denounce or badmouth the worldview of the Rebbe z’l. I am not a Hesdernik, but I am troubled when illuim like R’ Amital are put down.
I guess I see value in some things that escape the posters I mentioned above. Klal Yisroel, Am Yisroel, is much greater and wider than your daled amos. Eight hundred years ago, Torah Jews who were prepared to label the Rambam’s works Apikorsus led directly to the burning of thousands of volumes of the gemoro in Paris. A hundred years ago, Torah Jews were calling Sara Shenirer’s approach to teaching girls apikorsus and worse.
There is no one with ruach hakodesh posting in the CR. (except perhaps Popa, but that’s a different issue). Without that, you are simply unqualified to make the assumptions and assertions you have, and, I might add, so would anyone be, who is not on a level to know the plans of HKBH – and no one is.
And as we begin the fast tomorrow morning, remember that there are worse things than assumed apikorsus. Exile. Destruction. Death. Persecution. And we learn that great rabonim who sat quietly while a Jew was being shamed played their part. Kal Vchomer, you should reconsider your words against a fellow Jew.