Here’s a link attached. Recommended. A bit long, but in my opinion worth it.

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I have to make a closing remark… doing a research paper on the thought of a person who is still alive and breathing sounds ridiculous to me. When people do academic research on the thought of Maimonides, Rabbi Kook, Aristotle, Moses Narboni, or anyone else who is no longer alive (or on someone whose entire thought and writing are esoteric and who lives within a certain framework where he conveys messages orally only to specific students) — that makes sense. But to do intellectual analysis of a person who is alive and breathing, and who has students who can explain exactly what he says and what his views are… seems ridiculous to me. And likewise, to do interpretive analyses of people like Leibowitz or Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, who stated in a sharp and clear way what their opinions were, again seems to me ridiculous. These people are not thinkers or philosophers from the Middle Ages who spoke in a language and concepts different from ours (which is precisely why it does make sense to try to interpret Maimonides or Avicenna, because they spoke in philosophical and esoteric concepts that are not really understandable to people who speak the modern language) — but analyses of modern thinkers in academia usually also sin by adding all kinds of psychological descriptions and taking things out of context (for example: “The Brisker approach that sees the whole of Jewish law as a framework that cannot be influenced by the modern environment — which Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik held in principle — was a source of inner tension for him all his life, because despite this he did receive a certain inspiration from modern thought, and this tension can be seen throughout all his writings.” Likewise, it is impossible to detach the influence of the family background in which Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik grew up from his exposure to the world of philosophy at a young age.) I didn’t quote any point from an article that actually said this, but this is the kind of expression that people in academia very often use, even about Leibowitz, who wrote in very clear language what he thought and what his views were. All sorts of strange psychologizing started becoming widespread, as if Leibowitz was trying to be some revolutionary philosopher — and that’s not how things are. (For example, on a site dedicated to his memory there is some speculation according to which Leibowitz’s revulsion toward Kant stems from the fact that Kant’s philosophy forces Leibowitz to “choose between being religious and being moral.”) … I can really see that in another 10 years someone will publish an interpretation of Michi’s book Thin Theology and write there that his views stem from a psychological tension that existed between the desire to be completely rational and the desire to continue belonging to a definite framework of Torah and commandment observance, with an explanation that this probably derives from the human need to receive some kind of certainty in life, along with pilpulim like: “Rabbi Michi can be seen as a herald of the neo-Enlightenment approach, which in a certain measure resembles the Mendelssohnian approach of the 18th century.” At the same time, there are scholars who see him דווקא as belonging to the right-wing school within the conservative camp because of his call to separate first-order halakhic ruling from second-order halakhic ruling. “His approach, which adhered to the rules of halakhic ruling fixed in Jewish tradition, and alongside that his refusal to accept as fact even basic concepts of reward and punishment, was steeped in inner psychological tension all his life, and this can be explained against the background of his becoming religious in Haredi society and his son’s expulsion from the yeshiva.”

Your claim may be correct, but Rabbi Oz Bluman studied for quite a few years under Rabbi Tau… so your argument isn’t relevant in this case.

Rabbi Oz Bluman studied for 10 years at Har Hamor.

What on earth do you want? What is this rant????