I stand by what I said, and I did not misread the word joker as joke. I know exactly what he said.
His assertion is that pulling down a proof from a gadol is not a legitimate counter-point and is something we only do when we have nothing to say. This is clearly false to anyone with the most remedial exposure to Orthodox Judaism. He’s now claiming that people are putting words in rebbeim’s mouths, which is not what he originally said at all. I’m fine with him making this claim since it’s not doing him any favors given that Haimy linked to an article with his proof.
If you want a world in which we don’t have any authoritative voices and every individual gets to just make up his own drashas from his Bible, I recommend you try a Church. If you actually have so little exposure to Orthodoxy that you truly believe it when you say the gadolim don’t actually have a problem with joining the IDF, then I reiterate that you should not be posting here because you have no idea how anything works.
Avi K: I heard that Moshe Rebbeinu privately said it’s okay to eat pork… Seriously, do you ever listen to yourself? The gedolim are not secret Zionists no matter how much you fantasize about it. Just man up and admit that you live in an alternate, Kahanist sphere that is not sanctioned by the mainstream, Charedi rabbis.