How Chareidim look up to Gedolim, including smaller Rabbonim looking up to greater Gedolim, is how Klal Yisroel practiced our Mesorah since Moshe Rabbeinu.
Everyone else calls them “Modern” so the name stuck. A real, knowledgeable “MO” person would most likely refer to themselves as “Centrist Orthodox”
Actually, their own organizations refer to themselves as modern. And even though sometimes they call themselves centrists, what exactly are they centered between? Who are the “two sides” around them, that they are “centrist” from, exactly?
not true. MO is a new invention. the creator/forebearer of it was quoted as saying (i read this in a book about him- very pro, not anti, this isnt propaganda) not verbatim that “modern orthodoxy lacks the wings to soar to the hights that the old-fashioned judaism allowed for”. he said so. so pick the one that allows you to soar.
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