YYA > but in hindsight there is no question who was right. … תן לי יבנה וחכמיה is the precedent for Jewish survival, not political maneuvering…
A good analogy. Again, I do have mixed feelnigs about charedi community – indeed, great growth numbers but at the expense of changing the character of what passes as Torah: aggressive self-righteousness, lack of ahava towards other Jews, having no shame in living at someone else’s expense (and in Israel – lives), “bite as a horse” attitudes towards anyone who learned chochma. Rough generalizations, of course, but Emes is too high a price to pay for Survival. And this is nothing new in history, there were all kind of Jews at all times, but I think talmidei chachamim of previous generations policed their members better than now,