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.
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