HaLeivi and Dr. Hall:
I would still refer you to the question I posed in my previous post.
Charlie:
The whole strength of our faith is in mesorah, the faithful transmission of the Torah from Rebbi to talmid. Otherwise, anyone can make up anything they want and ch”V make a mockery of the Torah.
Now, if you want to take a different Rebbi with an equally valid mesorah from his Rebbi then that is one thing. But to invent your own new mesorah is quite another thing.
I don’t want to discuss the tremendous disagreement that the Torah world’s greats had with both Rav Kook and Rav JB Soloveichik regarding their inventions of their respective new ideas. And Rav Teichtal was not condoning any -ism, including Zionism, as clearly stated in his sefer’s hakdama. He was also writing under tremendous duress, etc. And the gedolim disagreed with him anyways.
But even if you feel they somehow were able to create a new valid mesorah, to do so kiNeged their own mesorah along with the vehement opposition of their peers who claimed their new ideas were against the Torah, is quite difficult to understand.
Again, I refer you to the question I previously posed.