Yitzchokm: I am not holding in the entire controversy, but was he ever personally called a Kofer (aside from being Chabad)? I know there were some strong bans on some books he wrote (and he said that the offensive material wasn’t written by him) because they took too cavalier an attitude towards Chazal, but that says nothing about him as a person nor his Peirush on Shas. If you can enlighten me as to where anyone actually called him an Apikores or said his Peirush on Shas was Assur (aside from the Tzuras HaDaf issue, on which he conceded), I guess I could stand to be more informed on this.
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