Reply To: The Modern Orthodox “Mesorah”

All forms of Yiddishkight were massively affected by the Holocaust and had to basically restart. Most religious Jews today are a mix of the original modern, the original chasidim, and the original misnagdim. Although some are obviously much closer to one of the originals than others. R’ Moses Mendelssohn was clearly the founder of the original modern. We are all his followers by having secular studies for example. And the yeshivish levush is clearly a chasiddish concept. I actually consider Yeshivish to be a form of chasidus. Just like chasidus has all different forms – Satmar, Belz, Ger…