World Fair
Imagine that once each a year a major international fair is held at the Javitz Conference Center in Manhattan. People from all over the world get together for several days to share business ideas, exchange news, meet friends
and just enjoy themselves. For the sake of equality, everyone dresses similarly and wears a name tag that may or may not reflect the name they go by at home.
We are so careful not to eat food until we see at least some sort of hechsher. We may even refrain from buying a sefer until we see a haskama (approbation) from a familiar rabbinical name. How is it then that we can trust ourselves to study the words of people whose beliefs and guiding principles are directly at odds with everything we hold dear?