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This will be my last post. There is what to respond, but I’m going to draw the line for any sort of conversation or even debate when people resort to personal attacks, no matter how trivial. In light of your comment, it comes as no surprise that you focus on the main character as the chassidishe guy who goes off to college and NOT the modern orthodox guy who enters yeshiva to pursue semicha. To anyone who’s been reading this thread, I hope that you will not blindly accept that things are “apikorsus” or whatever, just because some anonymous moniker online ignorantly told you so. Gut voch to all.
@moi aussi, you and StamYeshivaGy are more than welcome to share what exactly about the book is apekorsus. It may not be glatt kosher (and for that reason I personally would not recommend the book to people here), but it’s not apekorsus. Drinking the koolaid means “to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly without critical examination (thank you wikipedia for the well worded explanation). It’s so easily convenient for you to say that it “smacks of apikorsus.” I can give the benefit of the doubt that the two of you don’t fully realize what apikorsus actually means and that perhaps the term has entered the yeshiva vernacular to mean something that your rebbe doesn’t approve of. It’s not apikorsus. And my name btw, which in hindsight is confusing, isn’t supposed to mean I’m cynical of the 613. I meant to represent that I follow the 613 and I am a cynical person. 🙂
@StamYeshivaGy I totally get that Potok’s books may not be appreciated/appropriate for a lot of readers here…and I agree it was misrepresentative of Judaism…but possibly apekorsus? It’s simply not. It’s far to easy to throw around that term when dealing with something you disagree with, lay off the koolaid. By the by, Potok lived as an observant (albeit modern) Jew.