WOW, sorry for derailing your thread, but some things I feel the need to respond to.
“yidishkeit has been unchanged since Har Sinai”
Not too often, no. And pretty much every time it was, it generated tremendous controversy. We try to keep our Judaism as authentic as possible.
“the Chasam Sofer put this whole thing together in response to the haskalah, that became another evolution”
The Chassam Sofer did not, contrary to the belief of Yair Lapid, create an entirely new sect of Judaism to compete with the Haskalah. He merely reaffirmed the traditional beliefs and practices of Rabbinic Judaism in the face of the Reform Movement, much the way the Gra did in the face of Chasidus. (Not that I’m equating Chasidus with Reform, only that they were both, to some extent, deviations from traditional Judaism.