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<font size=3>At 09:02 PM 6/29/2011, R. Saul Z. Newman wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">3-- The more interesting
question would be where would be the comfortable <br>
fit in the haredi community; in the post-Slifkin era would he be
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self-censoring?<br>
Or is emes a greater midah
than capitulation?<br>
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I have a friend who is a BT and was for many years very close with R. A.
Miller and davened in his shul. He has a master's degree in physics and
works as a computer programmer for a bank in Manhattan. He never attended
yeshiva, but he has and continues to spend time learning. <br><br>
About 3 years ago he moved to Lakewood, because many of his children and
grandchildren live there. Several months ago he sent me an email
complaining that there is no one in Lakewood with whom he can have an
intelligent conversation. He did not mean an intelligent
conversation about Torah topics, because there are many people in
Lakewood with whom he could converse intelligently about Torah
topics. He meant a conversation about secular matters and, in
particular, about a certain book dealing with non-Torah topics that he
had read recently.<br><br>
In light of this I have a feeling that RSRH also would not be too
comfortable in Lakewood. If he mentioned Schiller, how would he be looked
upon? <br><br>
In fairness, I am sure that RSRH would be comfortable with someone like
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman, co-author of <i>One People, Two Worlds: A
Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi explore the issues that divide
them</i>, who resides in Lakewood. YL</font></body>
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