Thanks everyone for lots interesting stories and ideas in this thread, with (relatively) little flames! A lot of them are hard for me to fully appreciate .. and I am afraid – for most of you also, despite everyone’s full confidence. Several people kindly replied to my previous remarks, but it seems I failed to make my point. Maybe a couple of chess-players here will understand this: if you played after spending some times trying to be good at this game, you to some degree know where you stand: how good you are, and what is your limit, and what are your strong and weak points … Imagine Samuel Reshevsky (who was one of the best in the world, give and take a couple of other Yidden), and someone tells him in learning – your sevorah is not good … he would probably need a serious proof for that. So, my question for everyone discussing esoteric concepts here – do you have any objective proof that you have great mental capacity to know what you are talking about?
Maybe an SAT score, or Calculus 3 grade, or chess rating, or NYT cross puzzle winning streak, please do. I am not saying you should do any of that nonsense, but I’d like to get some credentials – so that I know who to take seriously in this thread.
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