Reply To: Ami Magazine – Controversy

Halevi, thank you for your well written comment.

Health, allow me to explain why exactly this is not the mag’s decision.

When i say a ‘controversial topic in hashkafa’, it means there are sources who regard this as borderline heresy (Reb Aaron Kotler zt”l, for example, related in the name of the Vilner Gaon that this is not the correct view). Such a questionable concept should not be sold by ANYONE as a dovor poshut, without giving the slightest mention of those who vehemently disagree. When we are dealing with hashkafa, the danger is twofold: 1) relying on a daas yochid is a little more scary when you are forming your belief system. 2) most people – especially children – don’t even know the problem with this statement, and it remains ingrained in their minds.

I personally think that the Ami should stick to recipes, and leave sensitive topics in Judaism to everyone’s respective rebbeim. But evidently the editorship disagrees, they seem to deem it their job to set the tone on our beliefs. Being that they embroiled themselves in many hashkafic faux-pas, I think it is safe to say it wasn’t an accident.