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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN class=683293114-28012009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=3>Being shared with R' EK's permission - the issue of needing
to be not self aware is fascinating as imho it informs on our oft discussed
issue of how change occurs within orthodoxy.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN class=683293114-28012009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=3>KT<BR>Joel Rich</FONT> </SPAN><BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Joel,</DIV>
<DIV>One major difference is the way Reb Chaim viewed
<STRONG>himself</STRONG>, as opposed to some of the modern ideologues.</DIV>
<DIV>Reb Chaim never expressed himself as somehow breaking with the past (I
referred to this in an article, see the Orthodox Forum's Lomdus volume, p.
331). As I indicated, self-conscious revolution is a phenomenon of the modern
batei-midrash. In a recent article in the magazine "Nekuda", Rav Yehuda
Brandes (who is at the forefront of the new approaches to learning) explicitly
wrote that hte new learning community needs to emphasize its
differentness and stop trying to be a part of the "stifling" classic style,
which he attributes to the "haredi" world (which to many is a damning
epithet).</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for your interest,</DIV>
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