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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=774080017-25072008>For some
reason I can't cut and paste your post but I have to disagree that believing
that chazal were fallible is tantamount to heresy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=774080017-25072008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=774080017-25072008><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff>Also I believe the flavor of Chana's post <SPAN
class=893023814-25072008>was diminidshed by at least 2 </SPAN><SPAN
class=893023814-25072008>statements that concerned me:</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>"Most of
those within the Modern Orthodox world would approve of any method being
utilized, any method which would seem to bring us closer to God, whether it be
historical analysis, psychological readings or any sort of outside tool which
will aid us in our understanding of <SPAN class=blsp-spelling-error
id=SPELLING_ERROR_4>Tanakh</SPAN> and the Torah" - where did
this demographic information from and didn't chazal use these types of analysis/
IIUC R'YBS was saying that they must be used within the self contained system of
halacha, not that they can't be of value.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff>" One
has the right to speak only when he realizes whom he is speaking to, and whom he
is speaking of, and this is something that alas very few within the Modern
Orthodox world understand- because it is not something they have been taught.
" again a sweeping generalization based on what?<SPAN
class=774080017-25072008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=774080017-25072008></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=893023814-25072008><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=774080017-25072008>KT<BR>Joel Rich </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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