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Have to wonder if the rabbi appreciated the irony of “Rabbah said, any scholar whose inside does not match his outside is no scholar. Abaye, and some say Ravah bar Ulah, said [one whose inside does not match his outside] is called an abomination.”
Going to the authorities isn’t what it should because some people have them in their pocket. Only Federal investigation, which is insulated from political forces, has a chance of cleaning up the sex abuse cover-ups that are rampant.
The story on how “Google is Destroying the Act of Reading” reminds me of Rav Schachter’s criticism of the use of Bar Ilan for paskening in the tefillin/partnership minyan controversy. One might be able to find the “key words” but the issue gets reduced to those few words instead of having an appreciation for the context around the daf and in Shas in general.