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n0mesorah
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A counter point.

The populist history that is common among the uneducated. Yeshiva guys who don’t look at history seforim, Bais Yaakovs, the public generic history shiurim, the lay class, etc. is not at all in line with Chazzal or tradition. There is as much of the modern Jewish school of historical thought as any other component. Rav Belsky got a bit passionate about this. He mentioned Rav Yaakov did as well.

So while in watching tv or covering hair your system will usually come up on the side of proper observance, it clearly has a failing in assessing thought exercises.

Though to be fair, systems can’t be made to evaluate ideology. That have to be thought out or they won’t make sense. You need to actually think the Ikkarim for them to have relevance. As a list, it doesn’t have any impact.