After three sessions I finally finished your piece in the recent Tradition and was much inspired by it as I have been from your other mighty articles. יישר כח for your endeavor to articulate those fundamentals of Yahadut, and may we very soon see you assuming the lofty position of one of our foremost spokesmen – a position which will recognize the זכויות of our time. There was one passage in your piece which does an injustice to traditional מדרשים, in my opinion, and I trust you will forgive me. On p. 39 you write that a מדרש on “motivation at the very beginning of His formation after the initial act of Creation is to attribute to Him an inconsistency.” This statement says that the saintly מדרש has attributed to Him an absurd inconsistency. For the מדרש in בראשית רבה denounces any attempts to interpret the six days as anything but literal 24-hour days. Furthermore, different rates of acceleration in טבע do not represent inconsistency. You may have the impression that מדרשים are slightly absurd. You might be interested to read the ספר נזר הקודש of R. Eliezer Lipman (עמוד א׳ סימן קכ״ד סעיף ו׳ וסימן קכ״ו סעיף ט׳) which clarifies the subject considerably. בברכת התורה, Ort. Hollander, St. Louis