Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Must One be a Baki in FrumTeens to Read It?

Readers may be aware of a new blog, FrumTeensWatchWatch, that attacks the claims of this blog. For example, in our previous post we noted that FrumTeens states that whenever you get pshat wrong in the Torah, it's kefirah. FTWW calls this a "lie" spread by an "anti-religious rasha" (am I a rasha, or just someone who espouses rishus? ;-) ), because in an entirely different post, FrumTeens clarifies that not every wrong pshat is kefirah, just certain types of wrong pshat (more on this nonsense in a forthcoming post).

It's surprising that FTWW isn't aware of the following position expressed on FrumTeens:

the whole idea of defending a book by saying that you have to read it in its entirely or that you have to read it a certain way etc doesnt work, since the typical reader of the book has no way of knowing that unless you read the book in its entirety or in some specific way you will be reading material that is against the Torah

Making such a case against a book is debatable - books are presumably intended to be read properly. But such an argument can certainly be made against a discussion forum on the internet, where a person reading one thread has no way of knowing that there is a different thread that casts a whole different light on the topic.

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