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Honorable Rabbi

Question

Most of the basic assumptions on your site are wrong, or deliberately fraudulent.
Most of the participants in the forum you mentioned are very confused people, and it was for people like them that Maimonides composed his work The Guide.
Even those whom you call “Torah scholars” are probably indeed learned people, and some of them may even be prodigies, but the disease of confusion spares almost no one.
In the Haredi public that I belong to, you can talk about whatever you want, only in limited forums and with open-minded friends/parents, etc., so as not to confuse those who are not confused, like you and me. And anyone who has tasted the taste of Torah knows that you can talk about everything, and there are answers for everything. 
Apparently you have never met personally, not just in a chance encounter, a giant of Israel on the scale of Rabbi Steinman or Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the like, because then you would understand and know and recognize that all your basic assumptions are mistaken.
How can the honorable rabbi, in the name of reason and openness, after reading some of the materials on the site, place himself for all eternity together with the disciples of Zadok and Boethus,
teach women Talmud, give a platform to heretics, etc.
This can only be because the honorable rabbi is of the mixed multitude, a thoroughly wicked evildoer who chose to be a Reform Jew disguised as a “rabbi.”
And no learned explanation can stand against even one clause in the Shulchan Arukh. Only someone who has delved into the halakhic decisors and studied Torah for its own sake knows that where the medieval authorities (Rishonim) have spoken, we have no right to speak—not for the reason you think, not because they extinguished our independent thought, but because we contemplate their greatness through their writings and reasoning and are overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of their thought, and thus understand that they understood far more than we do. Their lives were full of substance and faith, but unfortunately you are already completely on the other side. There is nothing to elaborate or discuss.
Fortunate are you, for you have acquired for yourself a dark world, and to enter everlasting disgrace together with Zadok, Boethus, the Reform movement, and the wicked of the world who did everything the Sages denounced.
But the evil inclination has never ceased from causing people to sin,
and in the name of reason, etc., and in the name of knowledge, etc.—fortunate are you for having placed yourself together with the disciples of Jesus the Christian on one line and one fate.
Mercy.
This can only be because your parents committed a very special sin in order to give birth to a Reform monster like you. Fortunate is the woman who bore you.
 

Answer

Could be. I’ll pass it along to them. Thanks for everything.
I only wonder about the title, “Honorable Rabbi”—is that a description of you, or a form of address to me (= the Reform monster)? It reminded me of a story about the great Rabbi Rabbi M. Twain, of blessed memory, who once received a letter containing only one word: “Idiot.” In response, he wrote: “In my life I’ve already received letters with content and without a signature, but this is the first time I’ve received a letter containing only a signature.” And reflect carefully.

Discussion on Answer

. (2021-12-15)

Dov, which basic assumptions are you talking about?
Actually, I think the Rabbi believes in basic assumptions at least according to your own words, in the category of a child taken captive 🙂

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