Like so many of my equally ill-informed post-yeshivist burn-out compatriots, I wanted to throw out one more comment about the Slifkipalooza Apologetathon that continues to carom through the blogovelt. (Here's an interesting roundup featuring opinions from some fairly credible folks. My new best friend, or at least the only person I know of that's been to Bulgaria, has yet to chime in - good for her.)
Point is, when all of the name-calling subsides, and the damage is tallied up, one factor that will have contributed mightily to the gaping, smoking hole formerly occupied by respect will be the naked willingness of so many to retroactively create halachic stances - not in the pursuit of truth, but in a political attempt to justify what was oh-so-clearly a poorly conceived mis-step in the first place. If halacha is in fact as malleable as Blu used to say before she was toned down for prime time, well, then, its masters' worth might be up for some questioning.
Which is, I think, a bad thing. But I'm not certain.
- Moishe Potemkin
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Posted by: DovBear at July 11, 2005 10:55 PMWhy'd you stop visiting my blog? Write me
Posted by: DovBear at July 11, 2005 10:56 PMgreat post on tolerance, below, but it would not let me post a comment. i pray that the actuarial odds of tolerance are better than what my gut says. actual work to be done? maybe i should reevaluate time useage as well.
Posted by: eliyahu at July 12, 2005 11:54 PMEliyahu -
Sorry about the comments problem, which is regrettably well beyond my technological capabilities. But thanks for stopping by.
Moishe P.
Posted by: Moishe Potemkin at July 13, 2005 10:12 PMI've got to say that overall I think this is a fairly uninteresting blog. I mean I just read your July 9th post--you use a lot of big words but in 3 paragraphs or so, you really don't say much at all.
Posted by: Joseph at July 18, 2005 06:52 AM