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Syag, I just asked for a clear example as to how I’m wrong. Very simple; i saw him use 12 steps in mussar, and i disagree. Please show me why I’m mistaken. Instead im just being told i don’t understand it.
Rav miller wrote seforim and was a gadol batorah; you can follow whichever opinions you want, but his opinion is valid and saying you disagree is arrogant, whether you understand his opinions or not.
But let’s assume for a second that they would be on the same level – if someone said something in the name of rav miller (he is actually misquoted a lot and the pamphlets are not perfect), i would point it out by showing why it was mistaken. I wouldn’t just say that i know better because I’ve learned all of his seforim since i was a teenager. I’ve done that before; just get me the source and I’ll gladly accept it. I have no motivation to think of rabbi twersky as wrong, nor do i have motivation to think he’s right.
But take a look at the responses I’m getting, besides what you’re saying – everyone’s defending his psychology (besides aaq, who’s saying that you can mix Torah and psychology, and again quoted his probably fanatical and messianic rabbi who claimed that the rambam could learn torah from Aristotle), and totally missing my point.