Reply To: Ahavas Yisrael for those in YU/the MO community (Ask me anything)

BSD

You are correct; I had noooo clue that this was such a deep-seated issue with some of the residents of the coffee room. I did not intend to stir Machlokes, Chas VeShalom, but quite the contrary, as I stated above. I had assumed that most of the Yeshivish world hates on Modern Orthodoxy out of utter ignorance (for example, a Bochur from scranton genuinely asked a good friend of mine if it was true that in YU they bound the math textbooks to the Gemaros), which I would be more than happy to absolve and reject. Are there issues with Modern Orthodoxy? Yes, and in fact, I agree with quite a few of @AviraDeAra’s points. But my point was not to come here to stir up a fight, but to try to clear up any misnomers, and thus try to show that we have waaaay more in common than we don’t, and thus to create some sort of mutual understanding. I am not an insider here, and thus had nooo clue that this issue ran so deep.