Reply To: Denigrating Gedolim

@AviraDeArah “Gedolei hador cannot be influenced by the tides of outside, alien philosophy.”
This is a new development in yiddishkeit in the past 300-400 years. Whilst there were certainly individual gedolim through Jewish history that were more isolationist, the vast majority (from Tanach through to the Rishonim) were deeply engaged and even influenced by the world around them.
Having a godol hermetically sealed in a box to avoid any outside ‘contamination’ is not in line with our mesorah.