ourtorah, I do feel like I’m being attacked. I’m trying to go through each person’s comments one by one.
My Rebbeim explained that to make a Kiddush Hashem, you have to show that the Jews are different from everyone else. If you show people that you are different and do things in a different way, then people will respect you. It sounds like you’re doing the best you can.
If you know me, you’ll know that I’m not the type to sit in my home and do nothing because of pritzus. There are things to do. I go out and do things. I am definitely not ignorant of the fact that there’s pritzus out there. I live in an out of town community, I know what it’s all about. The way I was raised is that you should be a frum yid even where there’s tumah.
You have banned Beaches, Waterparks , Amusement parks,Sporting Events , The Mall ..And other thingsthat werent mentioned but Im sure they are not good either
I haven’t banned it, the Torah has banned it.
You can go out to a park where people usually don’t go to and take a walk. You can go hiking. You can go to museums, the list is endless of what you could do.
There’s a story of a family who went to the airport on chol hamoed to ride the train for several hours. A pilot saw them and told them, “I fly all the time but I barely ever see my family.You probably barely ever fly because you have a big family but you guys spend time together as a family. I fly, but I’m going nowhere, and you don’t fly but you’re going places.”
old man,Makcklemore-I’m not talking about playing sports. I happen to be athletic. I’m talking about going to a game in general. I happen to like playing sports. these Roshei Yeshiva are talking about watching a game at a stadium.
old man, an added note. I heard a shmuz from a rebbe at the current yeshiva I am in. He spoke about daas Torah and If a gadol says something, you listen. He said, “On Yeshiva World News, sometimes they have a statement from a gadol, and on the bottom, they have comments about it. People just write their comments on what the gadol said, whether it was right or wrong to say such a thing. It’s daas Torah! If a Gadol said it, then listen to him. We don’t need your comments!”