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לא ליסתור בי כנישתא עד דבני בי כנישתא אחריתי… משום פשיעותא (מגלה כ”ו ב’).

I read Rabbi Nosson Shulman opposed the opposition to “Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchasa” because no alternative was (then?) available. (I don’t know if he meant all written opposition; “Lechoshvei Shemo”, Rabbi Benyamin Zilber, etc.)

The same is true for showing certain Jews their rabbis are ignoramuses.

This is also the lesson behind the tale of the scholar who tried to correct an isolated simpleton’s prayer. Then, the simpleton forgot what he was taught, had no one to consult, and ceased praying altogether.

That’s what various “zealots” refuse to grasp…

As far as I can tell, the Bimah is never in the middle (per the Mishkan, the Alexandria synagogue, etc.). It’s always placed toward the front. If they copied it from the Minim, why did we copy it, in turn, with a compromise, from them?!

I asked a scholar or two, but none could help me out.

Rabbi Erez Moshe Doron wrote a mythopoetic book called לוחמי התמורות. It was passably translated into English under the name “The Warriors of Transcendence”.

Check it out!

One problem is it’s done in public, so the chances are low one will study what he himself needs to (let alone with “flaming lips”).

Observe. Who studies “Orech Apayim”, those who need it or those who don’t? Have you ever observed a Yeshiva youth focusing his Mussar time for months on, say pride, in sefer Orchos Tzaddikim? Me neither.