The Lakewood that I was born in, grew up in and chose to raise my family in is officially dead. Like many of the other Corona deaths, we can argue if the real cause of death was COVID-19, if COVID-19 was just a contributing factor or if it was a death due to preexisting illness with COVID-19 but regardless, it is dead. Some may argue that it died a long time ago and I just never get the memo. Torah based leadership, formerly a hallmark of Lakewood (even if I may not have agreed with every letter) has been replaced by every shmoiger having a da'ah, competing vaadim issuing senseless proclamations without any explanations, based on whatever asken has the ear of said vaad. Instructions that fly in the face of sechel and the basic hashkafas hachayim that yidden understood for millennia.
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