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mogold- thanks for your posting. I agree with you that jews of Hungarian descent have accepted the Chassam Sofer zz’l as their final halacha (many would not even walk into a shul with the bima at the front). My point was that when he said “chodosh ossur min hatorah” , it was a “horo-as sho-oh” because of the success of the Reform movement in those days. That was my point in mentioning the psak of R’moshe zz’l.You are certainly welcome to follow his Piskei halacha but the whole world is not Hungarian…
And yet, we do not know his views on a medinah.
As far as Rav Teichtal HY’D, I only pointed out that even amongst the Rabbonim who followed the Chassam sofer’s derech, there were those who embraced the medinah. Not Zionism- mind you, but certaily the hope and the fact of a medinah.