Reply To: Isn't this YESHIVA world?

Just like I wouldn’t call a psak by rav shteinman “cute” same here. They’re both talmidei chachamim that should be respected.

1. Don’t compare a history professor in a university to Rav Shteinman.

2. I would call a pshat I heard from anyone “cute”; it is normal terminology in the yeshiva world. Perhaps we don’t have the same cultural phraseology, and that is the source of your misunderstanding. This is not surprising since you also think bochurim have beards, which everyone else on this site knows to be false.

3. For the record, here is his Wikipedia bio. I’ll let the audience judge you.

“Haym Soloveitchik (b. September 19, 1937) is the only son of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He graduated from the Maimonides School which his father founded in Brookline, Massachusetts and then received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1958 with a major in History. After two years of post-graduate study at Harvard, he moved to Israel and began his studies toward an M.A. and PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, under the historian Professor Jacob Katz. He wrote his Master’s thesis on the Halakha of gentile wine in medieval Germany. His doctorate, which he received in 1972, concentrated on laws of pawnbroking and usury.”

4. Have you read any of this other stuff? Because if you have, I’m a bit surprised that you think I am supposed to talk about him in hushed respectful tones and not use words like “cute”.