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“Show me where you see that “MO” has a systematic belief in what you claim it does”
Sam, your train of thought is to keep insisting that MO has no systematic practices or beliefs, MO has no institutions and MO has no shittos or minhagim. So, really, what *is* MO? Your arguing that there really is no MO. Apparently, MO is whatever any self-defined MO person believes MO to mean to him. So you’re arguing that you can never fault MO because my MO is different than your MO, and if anyone criticizes “MO”, they’re criticizing the MOs who don’t necessarily agree with the MO things being criticized.
If someone wants to criticize Chasidus he might point to specific teachings of the Baal Shem Tov or his disciples; If someone wants to criticize Telzers he might point to the teachings and Minhagim of the Telzer Yeshiva; If someone wants to criticize the Mussar movement he might criticize positions of Rav Yisroel Salanter. But MO? You’re saying there’s no positions to it; and anything any MO group practices is not representative of other MO; so it is impossible to ever criticize it is what you’re effectively arguing.