Talk:Gadol

Partial list

Something is very wrong if either Aron Teitelbaum, Zalman Teitelbaum or Unger are listed with the balance of this list of great scholars who are untainted by controversy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.173.248.62 (talk) 22:42, 17 December 2008

Vandalism of Gadol page

I apologize if this edit is not in proper format, but I am not a computer wiz. That being said, I have tried very hard in the past year to put a lot of good work into the Wikipedia page for Gadol, and have done lots of good work in terms of adding dates, neglected figures, published material, location of activity, along with footnotes. But for whatever reason, Gedolim associated with the Mizrachi keep being removed. I thought putting up a list endorsed by Rabbi Fendel would end the vandalism, and it did for a period of time, but recently again, Rabbi Soloveitchik of YU (who WAS listed in Fendel's last work, after he accidentally omitted him in a previous work) was removed from the list! If anyone can get this page to stop being vandalized based on hashkafa, I would greatly appreciate it. I never removed anyone for Hashkafic reasons, I only added missing gedolim (from ALL streams. I don't play politics. Sfardish, Yekkesh, Hasidish, Modernish, Tzionish, Haredish, etc. In shamayim (or gehennom, where appropriate) Hashem won't ask what type of Kippa you wore. For example, I once added the missing Steipler Gaon from an earlier larger version of the list when I noticed he was missing, as I added the Baba Sali, etc, etc.) Sinat Chinam is the cause of Galut, so please stop participating in hashkafic removals of certain names. Rav Soloveitchik was considered a gadol by R Aharon Kotler and R Moshe Feinstein, and was amongst the leaders of the American Agudah in 1940, even giving the seminal hesped for the Agudah for R Hayyim Ozer Grodzenski, before he re-aligned himself with Mizrahi. Remember that Rabbenu Yonah wrote a whole sefer (shaarei teshuva) and endeavored to travel to Rambam's grave in Israel and supplicate there for seven consecutive days in order to do teshuva for his deprecation of Maimonides and his philosophies. Are those who endeavor to do likewise to Rav Soloveitchik ready to face the consequence if they turned out to be wrong, especially considering the highest esteem R Kotler and R Feinstein had for Rav Soloveitchik?

— Preceding unsigned comment added to article by 199.102.168.8 (talk); moved from article to talk-page by -- -- -- 22:56, 28 August 2012 (UTC)