Dear Friends -
It just came to my attention that that many recent comments submitted here, for maybe like the last two years, have ended up in the spam folder. While I looked there in the past, as suggested by Blogger (and didn't find much, if anything), it seems that I have not checked there for a while, and therefore a sizable group of them has been laying there in limbo for months and months.
I know that people put thought and effort into writing comments, expecting to have reasonable comments posted, and that to not have that subsequently happen is frustrating and disappointing. If people thought that comments have not been posted lately in an attempt to totally prevent and stifle legitimate discussion and debate here, they should know that that is not correct.
I started rectifying the matter a short while ago, by starting to go through the backlog (still in progress).
Please accept my apology for the problem, and thanks for reading.
Looking forward to legitimate, reasonable, discussion and debate, with appropriate respect.
Sincerely,
Your Friendly Litvak Curmudgeon Buddy 😇
I am extremely glad that submitted comments were, at least, read. Hatzlacha!!
ReplyDeleteMr. Litvak, you have given a voice to many people's opinions with your ability to put into words what many of us can't . Please continue and the word will spread.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nice words.
Deleteהקב"ה gives the ability to express things, מה' מענה לשון.
Thanks for speaking out.
Mrlitvak the people wanna hear your opinion on the latest spar between RMW and a ranbi who said that the Pittsburgh karnanos died because of their sins. Thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteSorry, I just saw your comment, sorry about the delay. Perhaps it should be addressed in a separate post.
But in brief, for now, I will say that the recent clash contained echoes of the clash a few months earlier between Rabbi Weinberger and the Baltimore yeshiva Rebbe in Mishpacha magazine (which Rabbi Weinberger later apologized -somewhat - for).
In both cases Rabbi Weinberger, in Hasidic fashion, posed as the defender of the simple Jew, taking a position that every Jew had great holiness just by virtue of their background, even if their deeds were lacking. On the other hand, his Rabbinic opponents, in classic Rabbinic fashion, took the position that actions have consequences, that if Jews acted on a lower level it affected their spirituality, and we could not and should not pretend that every Jew is equally lofty.