Reading the media coverage of current events in Israel gave me flashbacks to the notorious ban on my books. At the time, many followers of the Gedolim were deeply uncomfortable with the notion that the Gedolim deemed it heretical to believe that the universe is billions of years old and that Chazal's statements about the natural world were not always correct. So instead, they recast the Gedolim as being opposed to the "tone" of my books, even though the Gedolim did not read my books and were explicit about what they were really objecting to. A similar attempt to avoid reality was the claim that "it was the
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Reading the media coverage of current events in Israel gave me flashbacks to the notorious ban on my books. At the time, many followers of the Gedolim were deeply uncomfortable with the notion that the Gedolim deemed it heretical to believe that the universe is billions of years old and that Chazal's statements about the natural world were not always correct. So instead, they recast the Gedolim as being opposed to the "tone" of my books, even though the Gedolim did not read my books and were explicit about what they were really objecting to. A similar attempt to avoid reality was the claim that "it was the