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[Harry Maryles]

I actually did a post on this on my substack yesterday. The following is an excerpt:

Joel Rich found this change saddening. So did I. But I can’tsay I was surprised.

No one doubts that Rav Meltzer took kol isha seriously.That was indeed the halachic component. But to reduce the story to that aloneis to strip it of what made it meaningful in the first place - his sensitivity,his empathy, his humanity. It recasts a Gadol not as a compassionate human beingguided by Torah, but as a kind of halachic machine, oblivious to the emotionalworld around him.

And that, frankly, says a great deal about what is beingvalued and taught in the world of the right wing Yeshiva world.

This kind of revision is not incidental. It reflects abroader shift in that world: a move toward defining greatness in exclusivelyhalachic terms, as though human feeling were secondary. Or worse, irrelevant.Being holy, in this framework, risks becoming detached from being human.
HM


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