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[Joseph Kaplan]

Richard Wolpoe:

"J  Kaplan's upshlug has naught to deal with the ideal but with the  
realia."

When the supposed ideal and the realia are SO far removed from each  
other, with NO ONE even striving towards the ideal or talking about  
it in ANY practical way, it seems to me that the alleged ideal is  
merely a figment of someone's imagination. IMO, therefore, to use  
such a nonexistent ideal in an halachic argument impairs, rather than  
strengthens, the argument.

Joseph Kaplan