Nom, when i said an average BMG bochur outclasses an average RCA pulpit rabbi, i am referring to…rabbis. Not other classes. What i mean is that the amount of names put on something which happen to have the title “rabbi” next to it is meaningless, if those rabbis aren’t experts, and basically know what to tell you to do if milk hits your cholent pot.
And yes, it is very partisan for a group of rabbis to try and upheave marriages; it’s intentionally subversive, and they knew exactly what they were doing when they did it and how the rest of us would respond. Things like marriage and divorce, gerus, should be issues of mutual understanding, with one community not doing something which can, according to the other, result in mamzerim.
My snarky comments about MO, mamzerus and illicit relations holds true – while it’s also true that many rabbis in the Torah world uave been found to have been immoral, this is in spite of a communal abhorrence of such conduct. Vechen lo yayaseh. Are people of any background susceptible to the yatzer hora, especially if in a position of power? Definitely!
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