Reply To: Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik — A Godol B’Kiruv

Ari Knobler:

Which “Gedolei Yisroel”?

All of them who stated a position regarding his weltanschauung.

Since when?

Do you disagree that he was mekarev many Orthodox Jews who, otherwise, would have stopped identifying as Orthodox, and adhering at least to the minimally basic Jewish laws and, instead, affiliate with the Conservatives (or other heterodox or secularism) and almost certainly dropped most of what was left of their observance?

What does this mean?

That in the prewar and postwar periods many Orthodox identifying Jews and congregations (shuls) stopped identifying as Orthodox and mostly stopped observing whatever level of observance they still adhered to.

RJBS was NOT, I repeat: NOT, the creator of Modern Orthodoxy in the United States or anywhere else.

That may be so, but RJBS certainly built Modern Orthodoxy into what it became and is.