"The accursed Enlightenment." What does that mean? I assume it refers to the actual Enlightenment philosophers Hobbes, and Hume and Rousseau plus the ideas of the Enlightenment that had come into the Jewish People. It is unlikely that he meant the Rambam who emphasizes the learning of Metaphysics and Physics as understood by the Ancient Greeks.
The problem that I see is the religious world is a million times more evil than anything in the secular world. The Enlightenment I admit has problems, but the religious world which pretends to keep Torah is so far infinity worse than anything else out there, I wonder why that side of things was unknown the the great Litvak Sages like Rav Shach. The religious world certainly is not the path of traditional Torah, but rather some kind of insane perversion thought up by mentally-ill religious fanatics.
In the religious path only lays heartbreak and broken families and mental and sexual abuse of one's children and slavery to some kind of mafioso who pretends to be a tzadik.
None of that has anything to do with Torah (as I have tried to convey many times). The Torah and the religious world are direct polar opposites. Almost anything is better.
Still, Rav Shach has point that Musar and the yeshivas developed long the lines of Reb Israel Salanter were on the authentic path of Torah
The secular world gives the main energy of the religious. Its emphasis on sex can only lead to frustration among the majority of guys who are not super Alpha Males with all the brains and brawn and money. So what does the average guy do? He joins the religious world with its promise of a shiduch. But then later, when the insanity of the religious becomes obvious, it is too later to turn back.
And even if you know your own motives were pure--to keep God's law, the vast majority of people in the religious world are there only because they are losers and that is the only way they can get sex. They just hide their motivations with high minded sounding phrases of Torah
The problem that I see is the religious world is a million times more evil than anything in the secular world. The Enlightenment I admit has problems, but the religious world which pretends to keep Torah is so far infinity worse than anything else out there, I wonder why that side of things was unknown the the great Litvak Sages like Rav Shach. The religious world certainly is not the path of traditional Torah, but rather some kind of insane perversion thought up by mentally-ill religious fanatics.
In the religious path only lays heartbreak and broken families and mental and sexual abuse of one's children and slavery to some kind of mafioso who pretends to be a tzadik.
None of that has anything to do with Torah (as I have tried to convey many times). The Torah and the religious world are direct polar opposites. Almost anything is better.
Still, Rav Shach has point that Musar and the yeshivas developed long the lines of Reb Israel Salanter were on the authentic path of Torah
The secular world gives the main energy of the religious. Its emphasis on sex can only lead to frustration among the majority of guys who are not super Alpha Males with all the brains and brawn and money. So what does the average guy do? He joins the religious world with its promise of a shiduch. But then later, when the insanity of the religious becomes obvious, it is too later to turn back.
And even if you know your own motives were pure--to keep God's law, the vast majority of people in the religious world are there only because they are losers and that is the only way they can get sex. They just hide their motivations with high minded sounding phrases of Torah
