[Avodah] [Areivim] Rabbis: Alternative medicine based on idolatry

[harchinam]

> You seem to have ignored my comment that followed this statement, namely,
"I
> heard Rabbi Yisroel Belsky speak about alternative medicine some years ago
> and he said the same thing.  What impressed me about his talk was the fact
> that he had spent time reading scholarly journal articles about this
topic."
> ...
>

I did not ignore it at all. What Rabbi Belsky said, it seems, follows what
was in the body of the article and not in the bolded sentence that came from
the headline. The bolded sentence was wrong, ignorant, and put there [IMO]
to make rabbis look bad. No one denies that some alternative approaches are
based in AZ just as no one knowledgeable denies that most are not. Judaism
has always utilized proper diet, herbal medicines, and other natural
treatments for various pathologies. This is nothing new.

Read the comments below the article to see how well the headline served its
purpose. Many attacks on frum Jews and rabbis for their ignorance and worse.

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