qwerty: To Benedict ARSo
Do you still want to be on Shmei’s team?
You are certainly one big weirdo! I am on “Shmei’s team” only insofar as he is quoting Rashi correctly. He definitely is – as, apparently Artscroll does – and you are not. Your hatred of Lubavich is making you make apikorsishe statements about Rashi and Chazal, R”l, and that I can’t abide by.
And let me absolutely clear, if Rabbi Plutchok (about whom I know nothing and assume that he is a sound person) says that the LR learned from H yemach shemo the idea of a master race, then he is a low-life. And I would say that if he said it about any Jew who is not openly pro-Nazi.
Also, if he said that Rashi is incorrect, and one may not understand יעקב אבינו לא מת literally, then is he should not be a Rabbi!
BUT I don’t believe he would say or agree to either of those two statements, and all we have to “assume” that he would is you saying that he agrees with everything you say. So I’ll have to call you, at best, misguided, or a liar… or more likely a looney.