tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post1516609573476812963..comments2023-10-30T08:40:59.016-04:00Comments on Wolfish Musings: One Final Note On The Lipa ConcertBrooklynWolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-29865804363890918892008-03-10T22:51:00.000-04:002008-03-10T22:51:00.000-04:00"This past Shabbos, the rav of my shul spoke and m..."This past Shabbos, the rav of my shul spoke and made the *very* same points that I did "<BR/><BR/>this is a shul in brooklyn?Lion of Zionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342299133387602141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-19794196003625276552008-03-10T18:03:00.000-04:002008-03-10T18:03:00.000-04:00ah, for the good old days when "ban" was a deodora...ah, for the good old days when "ban" was a deodorant,not an activity for "kanaim" with nothing better to do...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-6067063516068343082008-03-10T16:27:00.000-04:002008-03-10T16:27:00.000-04:00The rabbonim who are considered gedolim are actua...The rabbonim who are considered gedolim are actually ketanim. They are being led around by the nose, by other people. With the Slifkin book affair they put him on the map. After they banned the book everyone went ou to buy it. By now I think the rabbonim are a big joke. The only ones who listen to them are their own followers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-76242007810582390262008-03-10T15:12:00.000-04:002008-03-10T15:12:00.000-04:00The biggest danger also is wrapped up in the great...The biggest danger also is wrapped up in the greatest strength. Strange how it works.<BR/><BR/>On the one hand, the gedolim must always be aware that how they behave and what they do reflects not only on them as a class, not only on rabbis and maggids in general, but on the Torah and Talmud in which they have so much experience and expertise.<BR/><BR/>One gets the idea that if staring into them for decades gets you a bunch of crazy old men who issue rulings based on hearsay, or reuse bans from some other place entirely and throw a stamp on it, that maybe staring into the Torah is a bad idea.<BR/><BR/>This is a great and powerful bad thing. Bringing disrepute on Torah scholarship is nothing that the gedolim should ever be guilty of.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, once in a while, a gaffe does happen and the response of the people shows the level to which they instinctively understand the danger. Instead of being unquestioning fanatics, they are questioning fanatics. Something is bugging them about this ban for instance, and that shows they see a vast gulf between a proper ban and an improper one. Something doesn't fit their high opinion of how gedolim should conduct business.<BR/><BR/>This is a good thing. Unfortunately, it is happening way too often. Once in a while tests whether the people are paying attention. Constantly drives the people away from faith.-suitepotato-https://www.blogger.com/profile/04567987879881511630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-569617899229621722008-03-10T15:09:00.000-04:002008-03-10T15:09:00.000-04:00So what was the punchline? How does the community ...So what was the punchline? How does the community react to such blatant disregard for the halachic process and abject sinat chinam and make sure it doesn't happen again?Commenter Abbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07753256568022159103noreply@blogger.com