<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp4dde943ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I actually did a post on this on my substack yesterday. The following is an excerpt:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp6864743fMsoNormal">Joel Rich found this change saddening. So did I. But I can’t
say I was surprised.</p>
<p class="ydp6864743fMsoNormal">No one doubts that Rav Meltzer took kol isha seriously.
That was indeed the halachic component. But to reduce the story to that alone
is 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 being
guided by Torah, but as a kind of halachic machine, oblivious to the emotional
world around him.</p>
<p class="ydp6864743fMsoNormal">And that, frankly, says a great deal about what is being
valued and taught in the world of the right wing Yeshiva world.</p>
<p class="ydp6864743fMsoNormal">This kind of revision is not incidental. It reflects a
broader shift in that world: a move toward defining greatness in exclusively
halachic terms, as though human feeling were secondary. Or worse, irrelevant.
Being holy, in this framework, risks becoming detached from being human.</p></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">HM</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol; font-size: 19px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Want Emes and Emunah in your life?
Try this: </span><a href="https://hmaryles.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_6783913552" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Emes Ve-Emunah | Harry Maryles | Substack</a><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>