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Right-wing professor Fine

שו”תRight-wing professor Fine
asked 5 years ago

Does the rabbi know the man? I understand that he is a world-renowned scientist and I am currently reading his book The Poverty of Heresy by the Rabbi Kook Institute. Have you read it? Do you know him? If so, what is your opinion of him?


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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago
I know a little. They sent me his materials (and also a film about him being a Sirovnik, which inspires great appreciation for his personality). What I read seemed quite similar to some of my arguments. I disagreed with some points and the way they were presented, but it was definitely interesting and worth reading. As for his world-renowned reputation as a scientist, I don’t know. What I do know is that the religious world, and the ultra-Orthodox in particular, has a tendency to treat every scientific researcher as a world-renowned scientist (who has published “twenty international papers” and participated as a speaker at various conferences abroad, which is typical of any ordinary academic). But specifically about him, I really don’t know. And one more thing, it seems to me that what sets him apart is his being religious, and less his being right-wing. But beyond that, the very fact of referring to him as a “right-wing professor” is insulting and full of feelings of inferiority, and also irrelevant. The question is what is the nature of his reasons and arguments, not whether he is “right-wing” (this is the gist of my last column, 362).

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אבי replied 5 years ago

It seems to me that ”from the right” is a typo and we meant to write Benjamin.

שלומי replied 5 years ago

Indeed, a typo... I meant Benjamin... I don't know his political views.

משה ק. replied 5 years ago

I read The Poverty of Heresy. Not an impressive book at all. I can't remember right now (and I don't have it handy) to give a reasoned review, but to the best of my recollection it reeks of intellectual dishonesty.

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