AiMD:
We don’t know what anIsraeliYid’s psak was, so there’s no way to comment one way or the other whether it was in accordance with Rav Belsky’s “normal” psak or not. In fairness to your assumption, anIsraeliYid does seem to be making a strongly implied juxtaposition, but he softens it with a parenthetical statement.
I had thought that aIY had said that he got a psak that he could shake a woman’s hand in certain situations. However, looking back at the thread more carefully, I see that this was never clearly stated.
Mod-29:
That is an inappropriate leap, and your desire to defend Joseph should not blind you to accuracy at someone else’s expense.
I assure you that I have no blind loyalty to Joseph – I would have thought that to be obvious to anybody who follows this forum. But what does irk me to no end is when people follow a psak that is mere hearsay, often taken out of context, and usually distorted, broken-telephone style, by the many transmissions. This especially irks me when this hearsay psak that Rabbbi X may or may not have ever said explicitly contradicts a written psak that that same Rabbi wrote down for posterity. We just had this not too long ago with R’ Moshe, where somebody on this forum quoted a hearsay psak in the name of R’ Moshe that was clearly the opposite of what R’ Moshe paskened in Igros Moshe.
So I commend aIY for not causing one of these situations, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.
And BTW Mod-29, while we’re throwing around the term, I think it’s a bit presumptuous of you to assume that I am motivated by a desire to defend Joseph, and that that is what caused me to misunderstand aIY.
Sorry, it’s a recurring theme. And actions speak louder than words.
Maybe you’re in denial.