I was online at the Aish site trying to read some material by N. Weinberg when this chat popup appeared, trying to engage me by asking my opinion about world Jewry. As the answers were all about the state of Israel, I wrote that there are other topics in life. This lead to a 'rabbi' getting on the chat. So I asked him about women being exempt from some mitzvos and he told me that classic apologetic nonsense answer that they don't need the mitzvos because they are holier. Blah, blah.
So I told him that I found that offensive and illogical. And what amazed me is that he spent a half hour trying to convince me of it. He used bogus logic and no scholarship of course. So here we have a kiruv site and his goal is to do kiruv and all he can do is argue with me, trying to convince me. Shouldn't we have talked about Torah observance, proof of G-d, etc? Shouldn't he have bonded with me?
Well maybe he should have, but these kind of guys only know arguing. They are going to argue you into Torah observance. They know the truth of course and if you can pull back your ego you'll see that they are right. As you may have guessed, he tried that insult on me at one point. He got nasty real fast.
Now on this topic, he's no match for me. And I started sending him all kinds of material from the Maharal and others who say men are more holy. His answer, those are out of context. His intellectual dishonesty was breathtaking.
It was such a weird experience. Is this how you do kiruv, by arguing, by having ignorant people pose as rabbis?
