Do Neo-Litvack yeshivists believe in G-d? I don't see much evidence of that. I spent 5 years in yeshivas and have been around these people for forty years. The various words for G-d rarely appear on their lips. They also rarely take hashkacha pratis into account with any situation other than keeping you in yeshiva and carry on with such arrogance and hardheartedness that there couldn't be any room for Him in their psyches. Character doesn't matter either.
I'm not talking about Litvacks. The Chofetz Chaim was Litvish and he certainly cared about character and chesed. You see it in his books and that fact that he wrote books for the public. But he lived a century ago.
Today, particularly with the influence of the least Jewish country on earth, Israel, we deal with an entirely different type of person. They believe in Torah study, as a false G-d. As for those mitzvos, you gotta do them because if you don't the god that punishes other people will punish. Yeshivists don't believe they'll be punished because after all they study Torah and that's all you need. Find me a rabbi who has ever apologized for anything. But this god punishes others. They'll threaten you with this god's punishments. They'll never tell you of his love or anything like that. This god doesn't do anything for you. He punishes. but not them, only you.
Is this not idol worship? I think it's textbook.
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