tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post1489136463747536276..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: Most likely, the answer would have something to do with the powerful sense of fragility and vulnerability that has seized the ḥaredi world. Its watchmen have constructed high walls, fearful lest the slightest tap of doubt—like knowing that the “good” Auerbach and the “wicked” Kook were once friends—could cause the entire edifice to crumble. They have done so in order to protect the community they have created. Yet the walls are so high as to be, of necessity, unsturdy, and the fear so palpable as inevitably to trigger the doubt it guards against.Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-82552339800083866772016-12-15T15:51:51.356-05:002016-12-15T15:51:51.356-05:00Anything to this rumor? And I am being serious. It...Anything to this rumor? And I am being serious. It is rumored that the Slabodker bochurim vos hobben gehalten zich shpitz cool, fashionable guys used to go pick up poodles somewhere & stroll by the hip shops in Kovno which was the closest thing that Lita had to Rodeo Dr in Beverly Hills.Giorgio Armaninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-55343542751602963352016-12-14T20:57:04.247-05:002016-12-14T20:57:04.247-05:00Picture of five young men, of a group of men who t...Picture of five young men, of a group of men who traveled to study in Slabodka Yeshiva abroad in 1930 (after the 1929 pogrom). Rabbi Dov Zochovsky, [Rabbi Eliezer Goldshmidt ?], Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, Rabbi Moshe Tikochinsky and Rabbi Zevulun Graz. Photographed in Kovno near Slabodka.]Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-72626419759959130032016-12-14T20:53:09.474-05:002016-12-14T20:53:09.474-05:00Don't you mean Rav Hutner at university, not S...Don't you mean Rav Hutner at university, not Slabodka? I have never seen Lita's yeshiva bochurim look that way unless they were back in America.Chabadsker Rebbennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-76198298856407362912016-12-14T15:00:00.361-05:002016-12-14T15:00:00.361-05:00 Not only did Rav Kook not err when it came to z... Not only did Rav Kook not err when it came to zionism, history will prove that he was on the right side of history all along.True, early zionism may have been largely secular and sometimes anti-religious, but Rav Kook understood that good sometimes comes from questionable sources.Just look at the story of Yehuda and Tamar, which ends with the birth of Peretz and Zerach.Then again,I doubt most Chareidim spend time with Chumash.Maybe they would if Chumash were renamed (Hagahos Hakodesh boruch hu al Hashas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-8176244564420059122016-12-14T13:56:27.652-05:002016-12-14T13:56:27.652-05:00The Nadler-Mosaic criticism of Shapiro is correct ...The Nadler-Mosaic criticism of Shapiro is correct even though they are coming from the cynical angle of wanting Charedim to look even worse than Shapiro portrayed them.<br /><br />They are all wrong however when falsely claiming that all Charedim now view Rav Kook as evil. That is the belief of Hungarian Chassidim & a very tiny minority of Litvaks like the Lucerne crowd. A majority of Charedim believe Rav Kook was a tzaddik who erred. I believe that even Shapiro knows this but is himself guilty of slanting since as part of the YCT camp he sees Charedim as opponents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com