YW Moderator-80 on "Modern Orthodoxy at a crossroads"
jothar your logic is flawed perhaps he holds that women ARE kosher for aidus and are therefore kosher for dayanus. it would come out then, that he is arguing on the Torah, not on Gedolim.
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Nu nu. All you are saying is that a person needs to be makir mekomo. If he's takeh holding by arguing, he can argue, and if not, not. I just resent the idea that "Gedolei Hador" is a "concept." It...
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And the RCA makes its own determinations for who's qualified to give that Semicha. If a time element was brought in, could the RCA demand that the Yeshivish/Chassidish world be somewhat more uniformly...
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All you are saying is that a person needs to be makir mekomo. If he's takeh holding by arguing, he can argue, and if not, not. I just resent the idea that "Gedolei Hador" is a "concept."Gedolei hador...
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yit- to a certain degree your dead right. do you argue with your rav?no.the knowledge gap between you and your rav is less then that between weiss and any gadol from 200 yrs ago. the mans a shoteh. a...
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But the point is it's a matter of pragmatism and common sense, nothing more. One doesn't become a zaken mamrei for arguing with the rishonim. Just a fool. I choose to make this clear because otherwise...
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In the end, isn't the reason RCA members aren't members of the Agudah that they don't think that analogy to secular academia holds? (To be clear, I don't think it holds in secular academia either. The...
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And for the umpteenth time, I don't believe for a minute, as someone who knows many living breathing MO Rabbis, (some even YCT grads) that anyone in that community actually would take a position on...
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This Saul J. Berman calls himself Orthodox? Unbelievable.
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He is editor of at least one of the Artscroll siddurim (the RCA version maybe?).
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You really need to check out the wikipedia page of his defunct organization called "Edah", which it says is from the passuk עד מתי לעדה הרעה הזאת Funniest thing I've seen in a while, including my erev...
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That is hilarious!!!! ROTFL :) :) How in the world did they miss that??!!
View Articlemetrodriver on "Modern Orthodoxy at a crossroads"
Let me put in my Two cents. Even though we had the major league, world class debaters like Poppa Bar Abba and other Gedolei ha Coffe room have their say. I will just simply give a little analysis of...
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Here's the statement by the Moetzes a year and a half ago: New York - Rabbi Avi Weiss has conferred “semikha” upon a woman, has made her an Assistant Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale where...
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The only reason the RCA backed down is because Avi Weiss changed the title from "Rabbah" to "Maharat", a semantic change but not a substantial one. I assume most RCA members weren't fooled, which is...
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Sorry I'm a little late, but here goes:Pashuteh Yid:"This is the main problem: People like Avi Weiss and YCT believe that the primary point of the Torah is chesed, which is a very valid belief. If that...
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Popa, Ok, you've totally lost me. The claim that's been made here repeatedly is that R Weiss et al lack respect for Rishonim, the Mechaber, and basically every Gadol since Moshe. I've been saying that...
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"For example, they grapple with how one can be commanded to kill a child of certain nations. This is a very serious question. It is compounded by the fact that simple answers like they will grow up to...
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Or the other way I usually put it:"For example, they grapple with how one can be commanded to kill a child of certain nations. This is a very serious question. It is compounded by the fact that simple...
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