Hat tip to Frum Follies. Dov Bear.
A YouTube video called Yeshiva guy says over a vort has been making the rounds. Incredibly for our little circles it has 30000+ views in one week. By the J-blogosphere standards, that’s like Miley-Cyrus-getting-caught-wth-cocaine-at-a-traffic-stop viral. Clearly it struck a chord of some sort.
For some reason this was deemed worthy of a public response (here) “after consultation with Gedolei HaPoskim.”
The author of the response, Rabbi Yair Hoffman, does not focus at all on the target of the video “Yeshiva guy says over a vort” since he realizes that the reason why “Yeshiva guy says over a vort” is because this is what he is taught. Therefore he intuits that the video is aiming for higher hanging fruit, and responds accordingly.
He summarizes three positions on how to interpret the Gemara Yoma 28b that states that the Avos (patriarchs) kept the Torah. Not surpisingly, there are three positions, which he terms maximalist, minimalist and middle-position.
