far east, I did not imply, CH”V, that Rabbi JBS held more of secular knowledge than of the Torah. That is, however, an MO phenomenon, even though he explicitly stated that it’s better to avoid culture as much as possible. For some reason, the practicality of this part of his address seems lost to MO.
GAW, I am not defending that “cult”, as you call it, and I don’t necessarily agree with anything/some things/everything that they do. And I have stated numerous times that the Yetzer HaRa targets everyone.
But that was not my point. My point was and is that as opposed to traditional orthodoxy, MO is unique in that it is mattir issurim and its very birth was based on a now-known-to-be faulty premise, that traditional Orthodoxy could not survive in America. Not only can it and does it, but even “Ultra-Orthodoxy” thrives. Back to MO, Zionism alone is a major problem. This has all been discussed repeatedly.
anon1m0us, MO does not believe in Daas Torah like traditional orthodox do and, from what I understand, MO frowns on the whole concept; they obviously do believe in psak halacha from a Rav, though. If I am wrong here and MO does teach “daas Torah”, I would be interested in being corrected on this. This is irrelevant to the point of the matter.
As I stated above, I was discussing a movement, not a person or persons. I did not mean to “hate” anyone, CH”V, only to point out the spiritual dangers of MO.
For the record, I have never posted under any other name and I do not do so now; nor do I expect to do so in the future. Therefore, the “Joseph” references are not appreciated as they are false.