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When the Zoo Rabbi, Natahn Slifkin, published his garbage books a few years ago, they were banned by many Gedolei Yisroel. Some Talmidei Chachamim disagreed with the ban. Slifkin’s writings were debated “is this line Kefirah?”, “Is this line heresy” and so on. I want to ignore this issue, albeit just for the sake of clarifying a point.
Let’s say that there is no “exact” Apikorsus in Slifkin’s writings. That is totally irrelevant. Some Gedolei Yisroel, with a much deeper insight than those of mundane thinkers, realized that we are dealing with wicked, epikorus. I, myself, went through most of his books, and I can say that my personal opinion is as follows:
There isn’t one word of epikorsus in his books. But his books are totally epikorsus from beginning to end.
The issue IS NOT at all: Did the son of the Rambam mean this or that. The issue is simply: is this Slifkin an epikorus or not. The Gedolei Yisroel with a farther sight saw exactly “where this guy is coming from” while other talmidei chahamim, as well meaning as they may be, simply missed the boat.
Over a hundred years ago Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin ZATZAL
declared that Michel Pennis was an Epikorus and declared a very strong Cherem against him. Many were very surprised. It seemed extreme. Pinnes was a much greater scholar than Slifkin. People said Rabbi Diskin’s wife was behind it! Even great Rabbis disagreed with him. However, as any one fluent in Jewish history knows, we now know how right Rabbi Disken was and how mistaken were those who were taken aback by his “extremism”. We are still suffering today from Pinnes’ endeavors and from the hesitation of those who couldn’t see what Rabbi Diskin did see.
And now anyone who is familiar with what Slifkin is doing and writing today can clearly see that he has become an enemy of Authentic Judaism. His true, ugly essence is now visible to all. He has been revealed for all to see.
So all those pea brains who are banging their fingers on the keyboard trying to bring a proof from this source or another source to Slifkinism and its opinions are missing the boat.
Slifkin and everyone like him as well as those who support these type of Epikorsim (like Prof. Sidzy Lieman, Brooklyn Col) will go lost and Authentic Judaism will prevail forever. Amen.
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Rabbi Miller used to say that this exactly how you can tell if a person has legitimate questions regarding Torah ideology, or he is “looking for trouble”, that being he is looking for heresy. If the question is based on stupidity like things you read in National Geographic or Scientific American, you can tell that that person is not an erliche Yid. Please read next post.
I’m sorry to keep commenting on old posts, but I need to let this out for sanity’s sake, and my usual spot for such acts, frumteens.com, has already taken too many of my rants.
there are two things, beyond the usual things, that I can not get over regarding these people
One is, while searching for a sefer of Rav Miller’s (which I now Baruch Hashem have), I came across a letter on a site of one of these pro-slifkiners with defamation against Rav Miller. While the author of the letter may honestly have not known better (it sounded that way from what I saw), the person whose site this was on did not object, but had the letter as support. this is typical. DDOn’t they notice who their supporters and their opponents supporters are?? DO they think it means nothing?
2 I know of someone who went off the derech due to these filth books.