Stamper, Rav Schwab’s words are awesome (literally). Answers any doubt, I’d say, clears up any confusion between MO and RSRH. For this alone this debate was more than worth it.
“yitayningwut: I give up.”
“ItcheSrulik: I did that when I realized LMA & Co. actually thought Bilaam meant isolationism in his bracha.”
LMA, I guess you can declare victory. To think ?? ???? ????? means anything else… R. Aharon Kotler was right: The essence of Modern Orthodoxy is the same as the Reform and Conservative.