The banning and censorship of sacred Jewish texts especially the Talmud by external authorities, notoriously the Catholic church, is a well-known blight in Jewish history. From the mid-13th century onwards in all countries where Catholicism held sway, our holiest books were subject to church censorship of the most intrusive, intolerant and often whimsical kind. Banning was the successor to burning. An improvement of sorts!

Christianity has always felt threatened by its parent religion and the cowardly and fear-fuelled policy of bans and text-censorship was the way it dealt with it in mediaeval times. What however do we say about the banning or censorship of books written by contemporary rabbis in modern times.  Not by the church.  But by other Orthodox rabbis!

In 2002, Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky, son of the famed Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky ztl,  published a book entitled The Making Of A Godol. in which he explored the lives of 19th and 20th-century Torah sages including his own father. However soon after it was........

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