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Gedolim are great in every sense of the word, but ultimately, they are people too. Great people, yes, but people. From the podium at Agudah conventions over the years, many of these gedolim have spent their allotted speaking time not promoting ahavas yisroel, derech eretz, or doing mitzvos, but rather blasting other more modern ideologies, and yelling about the tumah of the Internet. Rav Svei called rabbi dr. Norman Lamm a ‘sonei Hashem’ during one such speech.
That is Torah I cannot agree with passively. These gedolim need to seriously think about how to best address the needs of klal yisroel. Insulting other ideologies, as well as degrading the soldiers that put their lives on the line for Israel to exist, is not gadlus and not kavod Torah.