The seriousness of today’s situation in Eretz Yisroel does not bode for long discussions about matters that do not touch our everyday lives. However, I want to respond to Joseph and his quotation on Modern orthodoxy by R”Aharon Kotler zz’l.
I finally had the opportunity to find a “Mishnas Aharon’ and did check his source.
Joseph, you are indeed correct that R’Aharon ,in his hesped on the Brisker Rov zz’l, has harsh words on the Modern orthodox way of yiddshkeit. He does indeed take Modern orthodoxy to task for its changing of some customs and, in that way, compares in to Reform. That is indeed in that writing.
It is a written quotation of the hesped and I have no way of knowing if these were indeed the exact words of the hesped or if they were subsequently written by a talmid.
Be it what it may, this is R” Aharon’s own hashkofoh. If you follow his derech,chapter and verse, then you may indeed accept this an indictment of SOME of the ways of modern orthodoxy.
If one does not follow R”Aharon’s ways, then it is just R’Aharon’s words and one does not have to suscribe to it. You may follow whatever godol or Rov that you wish.
I am only writing this because of the original discussion. For now, I will concentrate on the news of the day- something much more important than our idle talk.