Impermeable hardness of being, or in praise of Shmarya Rosenberg

The dynamics of an argument are not too complicated. Two people can start with an incredibly close position and through the argumentative acceleration of negativity gradually or instantly push each over into the opposite corners.

Side from a sex operation there is little more radical one can do compared to the acceptance of the harsh and uncompromising dictums of the Yoke of Torah in it�s late 20th century interpretations. The path to this change for Shmarya like for many Jews was through Lubavitch. From a few conversations with Shmarya I know that he has a sense of moral urgency unlike most. He is a diligent and persistent journalist. I know that the tone of his web site and the arguments he solicits bound to push him further in the corner.

Most of Lubavitch today are well meaning close minded ideologues. Even a hint of inquisitiveness is greeted during the online chatter and in the inner chambers of the royal court of Crown Heights with disdain and derision. Imagine a person who undertook a tremendous change in his life wallowing in the sea of complete and utter moral indifferences, or thinking so narrow it negates the very core of goodness it professes to preach.

I want to ask mentalblog.com readers to go to Shmarya�s site and write to him kind words of encouragement; this is bound to take him out of his corner. I know it worked for me!