{"id":42031,"date":"2012-03-20T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42031"},"modified":"2012-03-20T18:06:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:06:17","slug":"how-does-the-haredi-world-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42031","title":{"rendered":"How Does The Haredi World Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yaakov_Yisrael_Kanievsky\">the Steipler<\/a> for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a>, professor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: &#8220;Any changes are only valid if they are put forth by their authority figures. All the propaganda put out by people like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avi_Shafran\">Avi Shafran<\/a> that we don&#8217;t believe in this or that, it&#8217;s all nonsense. They believe in what the gadolim tell them. 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