nomes0rah: It might be apikorsus, but I respectfully submit that even the heilege Chofetz Chayim would not have been supportive of any Yid marketing air time to the Pillow Guy. As I’m sure you are aware, he always wears a tzelem on his lapel and his most recent ads show him at his desk with a weird painting of Xxxst in the background.
What may not be so widely known is that R’ Kagan MAY have been among the first of gadolei yisroel and the 20th century Roshei Yeshivos to get his semicha online (or technically “by wire”) when he encountered a legal requirement for documentation to list his “occupation” as “Rabbi” in order to obtain a passport. According to one biography, he arranged for a “semicha by wire (aka telegram) from R’ Grodzinski, the av beis din of Vilna.
