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> Of course I would not dare to take issue with the Chacham Sofer --
> were it not for the fact that many other Torah greats have done so.

You don't have to be a "Gaon" to see that the Chasam Sofer was combatting
Reform during a very specific crisis. And so we have no evidence that in
a different time or society that the Chasam Sofer would himself been so
headstrong about this. [OK conversely maybe we have no evidence he might
have been less headstrong]. The point is that under specific conditions
the CS darshened this way and we cannot be certain that he meant this
as a universal principle or not.

KT 
RRW 
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