Reply To: Trolling Wikipedia

Ben:

They hold they can undo any halacha which is based on minhag because it doesn’t fit with their liberal ideology.

I recently read an article by one of their top students who they insist on calling “Dayan” where he argued that we should start from the baseline that any minhag involving women is invalid because chazal and the gedolei hasoskim and acharonim were all sexist, and then one by one make the case for each why we should “readopt” it. Frankly–that person’s wine is yayin nesech.

I more recently came across a facebook posting where a certain regarded person from their world (I have diverse friends) argued that a good solution to the agunah problems is for nobody to get married and for everyone to just live b’issur.

Meanwhile, their big groisse scholar Linzer puts for an idea that is only slightly more sad than it is funny. He thinks that to promote equality, you should have the kalla give the chosson a ring as chalipin for the kesubah. Because the classic wedding ceremony where a chosson gives the kallah a ring is unequal and implies that the chosson is buying the kallah. And I laugh–because who are you fooling? The torah does say “ki yikach”; we do learn kicha m’sdei efron; the man is the one who does the kinyan, and it is a kinyan, and the woman does not do it. So you want to pretend that it isn’t what it really is?

So I ask you: is it possible that a person who believes in the torah sh’baal peh, and believes in chazal (the gemara) would want to fool himself like that? Wouldn’t Occam’s razor say that he really doesn’t believe that chazal interpreted the torah correctly?