Jewry in general is filled with
failure. “Most people sin with stealing.” “All Jews sin with Loshon Hora.” “Three
sins everyone does every day: sinful thoughts, praying and being sure of being
answered, and loshon hora.” (Bovo Basro 164b-5a) Our topic, however, is failure
that becomes enshrined officially, when people call themselves not Orthodox but
something else, Modern Orthodox or like the new apikorsim mamosh who call
themselves Open Orthodox even though their leaders say clearly that they don’t
believe in the Torah. Yes, we maintain a difference between a Jew who fails and
a Jew who hangs up a sign and says “I don’t keep this or that.”
We are going to speak here about
Modern Orthodox, but we also mention the trend
for some Orthodox rabbis to violate clear statements in Shulchan Aruch
and poskim when it comes to women’s rights to have a GET on demand. Some husbands can be forced to divorce, but
these are rare. We see rabbis who humiliate husbands and coerce in violation of
the Shulchan Aruch, and they are not Modern Orthodox. In fact, one Yeshiva rabbi in Philadelphia went so far as
to pronounce a married woman free to remarry, and the Modern Orthodox condemned
it. To my knowledge, other than myself, no Orthodox rabbis condemned it
publicly, although almost all of them condemn it privately.
Are there recordings of all of R. Eidensohn's shiurim? Where can recordings of previous (and this) shiurum be listened to?
ReplyDeleteIf it is about terminology, then it is worthwhile noting that the term "orthodox" was something invented in Germany, to combat Reform. Does it appear in any Hebrew texts of the Rishonim for example?
ReplyDeleteNext, the Hareidi ideology is also new - and it claims to be the real or "ultra" orthodox. Does that also make them illegitimate?
Neither the Orthodox nor the Hareidim took those names upon themselves. It was imposed upon them by outsiders, by the non-Orthodox and non-Hareidim. After it entering the lexicon and becoming standard usage they simply accepted the reality of others calling them by those names and then used it themselves.
ReplyDeleteMOe, thanks for that. This is correct regarding "orthodox" label, but if it was created by Reform (see http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/orthodox-judaism/ ) then it still supports my argument, or even more, as to what R' Dovid is saying. Who created the term hareidi? The word hareidi at least is Hebrew an is used in the TeNaCh, to denote "trembling". But the ideology is new -ish, or Rambam had his opposition also to certain groups, and proposed his own view as the truth, which was modern (philosophy) and orthodox (Halacha).
ReplyDeleteCheck out his blog
ReplyDeletehttp://torahhalacha.blogspot.com
There are links there to recordings of the classes.
Also, on behalf of Rabbi Eidensohn, can I request that you and others comment on some of the posts there?
Thanks.
My website www.torahtimes.com has auto recordings of some of the telephone shiurim. The website easily accepts audio but not the blogspot that only contains a link to the website audio, but both have some links or audio recording of the shiurim but not all of them.
ReplyDeleteRashbam's pshat is that transgressing in iyun tefillah means praying and thinking you deserve to be answered, whereas Tosfos has the pshat that people daven and lack concentration, i.e. they utter words in vain. Both do seem to be true.
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