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<font size=3>At 12:41 PM 5/4/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at
04:03:11PM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:<br>
: Let me begin with Daas Torah.<br>
...<br>
: The idea of the infallibility of religious leaders is, IMO,
a<br>
: result of the Chassidization of Yahadus. I do not believe that
this<br>
: was prevalent in the non-Chassidic world prior to WW II.<br><br>
It is also not normative Aggudist thought today. I cannot speak to
the<br>
popularity of the idea, but it's not what they mean when their
ideologues<br>
speak of it. Daas Torah has a number of formulations, none of which
are<br>
infallibility. This is simply a strawman nay-sayers like to address.<br>
</blockquote>Please see the article To Flee Or To Stay? at
<a href="http://www.hakirah.org/vol%209%20bobker.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hakirah.org/vol%209%20bobker.pdf</a><br><br>
At the end of the article it says, "This article is excerpted from
Joe Bobker’s “The Rabbis and the Holocaust,” to <br>
be published by Geffen Books in the summer of 2010."
However, to the best of my knowledge this book was never
published, and I have always wondered why.<br><br>
YL<br>
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