Thursday 9 May 2013

Open Orthodoxy's Fallout!

As I saw it then:

"Open Orthodox" was supposed to be about open inquiry into Torah with the kind of Academic Freedom not usually found in Yeshivot. IOW it was based upon the kind of Hakira found in places like Bar-Ilan and Pioneered by R. Ezriel Hidesheimer, R. Dovid Zvi Hoffman et al.

Instead, OO has pursued a revisionist agenda that has recently grown more aggressive. It has played too fast and loose for Mainstream Orthodoxy.

Two upshots:

1. This attitude is about to precipitate a schism within Orthodoxy

2. Orthodox Hakirah has been set back for centuries because it's becoming "radio-active" and that in turn causes fallout.

Best Regards,
RRW

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