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Simply agreeing to his Gadlus in Torah does not kasher the shameful bizayon you heaped on him as a Godol, Posek and Talmid Chochom. Again I implore you to at least take it back here on YWN, as I don’t suppose that you intend on going to his house, falling on your knees and begging for Mechila which I believe is what you actually ought to do.
It occurred to me to ask – why does Rav Falk recieve such flak – gavra you’re not the first ignorant balabat I’ve heard talking about him disparagingly.
I think maybe the answer is that he has written a Sefer on a subject that impacts on all our lives – women and their husbands, fathers and their daughters, day in day out from morning till night in full view of the public on the street. He was not scared to write his Halachic opinion on a subject that touches so close to people’s individuality and self-expression – and was extremely Machmir. If a Rav writes a Sefer on Hilchos Shabos whch is very Machmir, nobody really cares as much, the impact on life is much more limited. With Tznius, people feel more threatened and so they hit back and make it personal.
But it’s no excuse. You don’t agree with his Shitos? Fine, you have enough Poskim who are more lenient to rely on. But don’t dare be Mevazeh a Talmid Chochom in order to assuage any underlying guilt that may (for no good reason) linger.