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Logician:
Let’s break down just one part of the Kol Koreh; we’ll use the English translation posted above. I will limit myself to just one section:
(I remind you again that the Lakewood letter reflects the political attack by the Eitz people, which has been thoroughly investigated in EY — and rejected by two Battei Din. I remind you again that the Rabbinnic organizers of the ban are also Eitz people.)
“The aforementioned book also has strange and fake interpretations in the name of the Meforshim, and there is a spirit of Haskala in it. And it is not correctable at all.”
And what might these “strange and fake interpretations in the name of Meforshim” be? The examples cited in the pamphlet shown in Lakewood are demonstrably false. In fact, they do have sources in meforshim (Rishonim). You need not take my word for it, nor Rav Shternbuch’s Beis Din’s word for it, who declared the peirsh “kulo kodesh.”.
Go to an online Mikraos Gedolos that has peirush haRadak, peirush Rav Avraham ben HaRambam, Ibn Ezra’s two peirushim, Rav Sa’adia Gaon, Ralbag, etc and compare for yourself, to see if the peirushim are fake.
As for being “in the spirit of haskala,” again that’s what the Eitz people said, that the editors are affiliated with a Beit Midrash that they are at war with (Beit Midrash HaGra).
Not that Beit Midrash haGra is so terrible, but the two Battei Din, who investigated each and every editor and writer, said that in fact the editors and writers have no affiliation whatsoever with Beit Midrash haGra.
In other words, absolute lies on all counts.
As for the peirush being “not correctable at all,” one of the Battei Din said it needs no correction and is “kulo kodesh” and the other said that the publishers could sell the existing copies, but should also make certain corrections and once done, that Beis Din will also give it their haskoma.
But Lakewood says “no correction is possible,”
On what basis?
Because the editors are affiliated with Beit Midrash haGra — and therefore not kosher?
But two Battei Din have declared this a lie.
Lakewood Rabbonim have better information than the Ertetz Yisroel ones?
Next:
“And the great Torah scholars in the Land of Israel have already published their opposition in writing and by letter.”
Really?
Like whom?
Aside from the fact that Great Torah Scholars (Rav Shternbuch and the Eida Beis DIn) call it “kulo kodesh,” are we going with letters that were written BEFORE the Beis Din did their investigation — and which the Beis Din declared to be false?
So, we’re saying that despite this, we”ll proceed as if that fact-finding Din Torah never happened?