Mod-55, isn’t the purpose of the Coffee room to ask questions and debate the issues better left to our gedolim and those better than us? 🙂
Bottom line, this Ketzos which the author so casually tossed out there is a very troubling hashkafah if taken literally. I’m sure there are other interpretations/modifications to this hashkafah of the ketzos. The Ramban the author quoted had no problems retracting his pshat when he saw the “shekel yisroel” coin.