tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post250592686786712205..comments2024-03-02T03:29:09.759-05:00Comments on SerandEz and Friends: Loshon Hara About GedolimEzziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494592434522239195noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326001.post-54468515136446282332012-07-24T17:43:07.157-04:002012-07-24T17:43:07.157-04:00Given the holiness of our Torah which therefore re...Given the holiness of our Torah which therefore resonates ad permeates within the ones who toil in it, the greatest deficiency may not have been in the essential critique, rather the place the critique was coming from. Its well known that oft times our Gedolim will dispute different ways to lead Klal Yisrael, the most apparent was the seeming dispute between R' Ahron Kotler and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. That is the reality. In a Jewish consciousness which includes much dispute, avenues of lifestyle are surely to be amongst the arguments. Therefore, the fact that you disagree with a Gadol is not inherently wrong, rather the choice to publicize his perceived faults (which will inevitably lead to slander and gossip) is the great pitfall of your logic and middos makeup. For Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik to argue with Rav Kotler or vice versa is one thing- for you to argue with a gadol is another. Furthermore, the way which gedolim argue is purely l'shma- that is, their argument is solely for the betterment of the Jewish population. When you come and offer your own critique of a Rav's comments, do they come because you really care about the possible outcome under this Rav's leadership (doubtful, because if you critiqued him you probably won't listen to his psaks or machshavas anyways), or is are your comments coming from a place of anger; anger because his lifestyle isn't your own and the fact that he speaks his mind against your lifestyle angers you to the point where you wish to see his downfall? Is the critique from a l'shma point of view or because you just want to embarrass him? Unfortunately, many times when a person offers his critique nowadays, it doesn't come from the side of l'shma in the individual. Maybe you are different and truly are a great, learned man, but I know for myself that if I would give a critique of a gadol, it would be coming from a deep, offended place, and the purpose wouldn't be trying to better society, rather to humiliate the one who I believed to have wronged me....Yacov Nordlichthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14579746255495884330noreply@blogger.com