This thread actually inspired me to go back and listen to a shiur by R Rosensweig of YU which a friend of mine actually sent to me a few weeks ago when we were having this discussion. A very interesting perspective (from a self-avowed believer in TuM) which is also not especially controversial. For a sneak peek, he both emphasizes that he is NOT talking about PBA’s straw man questions and emphatically states that it is incredibly important to get rabbinic guidance in matters of hashkafa. Being a 50 minute shiur it doesn’t go quite as far as all of PBA’s points but it’s still fascinating.
It actually gave me another question-are we talking about whether to ask or what to ask? I think that one of R Rosensweig’s points was specifically about the importance of asking for hashkafic daas Torah, but the question is also what’s necessary to ask about, which I think is PBA’s point and which, as of my last post, I haven’t really figured out the answer to.