Ultra-Orthodoxy is Dead. The Gedolim have Killed It.
The gadfly blogger, Godol Hador, is wrestling with the problem that “all the major ‘Gedolim‘ [most learned and significant Rabbinical figures of the generation] signed onto a declaration that its kefirah [heresy] to say the world is older than 6000 years.”
He continues in this line of reasoning.
“Clearly, I feel that the evidence for an ancient world is overwhelming. This forces me into a position that the Gedolim are basically just a bunch of old guys who learned a lot of Bible & Talmud. In turn, this destroys the notion of Gedolim, and the supremacy of Torah as an over-arching ideal.”
His conclusion is that,
“This is perhaps the most defining issue ever in this area, the one issue which finally and conclusively proves that Chareidi ideology is just a bunch of bull.”
The fallout may occur as a leak, but may allow for massive hemorrhaging. And this hole will prove hard to plug, as a reversal becomes increasingly difficult over the years for the Haredim.
Quiescent Jewish Fundamentalism will not have been defeated by the Modern Orthodox, the Enlightenment, nor even the temptations of the world, but by the mighty dinosaurs, which as we now know, are treif to the core.
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Kelsey,
Don’t you know that the Chareidi world left reality long ago? It became obvious when they started banning books - and not just any books, but books by THEIR OWN PEOPLE. Books that were not exposes or attacks - these were books written as histories of and for the Chareidi world. “My Uncle the Netziv” is a prime example. It was written by none other than the TORAH TEMIMAH himself (as notes in his writings). But it was too REAL for the Chareidim. Chas V’Shalom it related that great Gedolim of the past (warning to the faint of heart - don’t read any further! This is your last warning!) read the newspaper on Shabbos! That they discussed women learning - with women!!!
Once you cannot even face your own past, the reality of what happened related by other Gedolim, then what is left? You can shift around within reality to keep what fits in your delusion and throw out what doesn’t. Don’t let the facts get in the way.
The truth of the matter is that this is one of the curses of Galus - we are thrown amongst the nations and their idolitrous ways (Christianity) and we are influenced by them (the Chareidim and their adoption of Fundamentalist Christian views of Science).
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