To the group(mainly the Yeshivish)
Since I’ve revealed some personal information let me share some more. Rabbi Dr. Mechel Schiffenbauer ZTL and I are(were) cousins. His father and my paternal grandmother were siblings. I can attest that Mechel was far greater than what you’ve been told in the FJJ. Every Erev Shabbos for years he’d call me(my wife usually answered, she was crazy about him). Do you know why he called, I mean we didn’t have that much in common. He told me numerous times. It’s because I was his only observant relative. Our families came to these shores in 1912 and basically everyone fell victim to the American spiritual Holocaust. On my mother’s side, I do have a fantastic modern Orthodox cousin. Interestingly Mechel connected with him a few years before Covid took him because one of my cousin’s daughters was in Mechel’s class(he was a Biology professor). The point is that Mechel, myself, and my cousin represent three different expressions of Orthodoxy, but we respect and love each other because we all believe in Hashem, Torah, and Mitzvos. Is that so difficult for people in the Yeshiva world to understand? Edited Again I rail against Chabad because they only believe in Torah and Mitzvos.