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Hakatan:
I see you’re rehashing the same old arguments. Again the MO shita imho and of course in the eyes of our greats is the traditional Torah way going back to Sinai; as a reaction against the Haredi revolution we have dubbed ourselves “modern” or perhaps more appropriately “centrist” orthodoxy, see Rabbis Norman Lamm , Aharon Lichtenstein or Jonathan Sacks for a more broad proofs. It is the Haredim who have simply become more machmir in response to modern culture…while I disagree with this approach obviously I sympathize and of course no MO would call the Haredim illegitimate ch “v. But to call Haredi Judaism “traditional Torah Jewry” is to grossly distort history. Being machmir in response to modern society while understandable in no way makes you traditional I am sorry to say. Also Rav Chaim of Brisk, while certainly being a great gadol, was hardly the only Rabbi of the past 300 years, so continuing to post his views like they are the daas yochid does not make that so