squeak- no one here is saying move towards being less machmir, or not following charedi lifesytle etc. We are not saying adopt MO tradaiton. You should feel proud to be where you are. Trust me, I always look around at girls who grew up in bais yaakov homes, at how much they love tehillim. How much they recognize their role as a Jeiwsh woman in the world. How wonderfully diverese they are, but how important halcha, mitzvos and Hashem is to them.
I look at myself, Baruch Hashem, I am so proud of who I am. But i didnt grow up like that. This was a ecent change of my own personal choices and trust me it has not been easy.
No one in any community should be excommunicated. We are all Jewish. Most people do not know. They are “tinok sheaino yodeia”. Im post seminary and I only found out many things about halacha and life in my recent years. Not everyone is as fortunate the be in the places you are: At such a high level of fearing and loving Hashem.
This is why i PLEA to you, to hakatan, to damoshe, to the people here who speak so so highly of the Torah to STOP hating on people who call themselves MO, who conform to Zionistic ideas, who wear this type of black hat and not that, who work all day and learn in their limited spare time. I plea from the bottom of my heart, that you open yourselves up just a little bit more, to being kinder, to drawing people like the above in and showing them that your way of life is beautiful, and not judgemental. If you are not strong enough to do this, and you are aftraid you will be influenced the wrong way, then fine I respect that. But dont write posts here about why they are wrong wrong wrong wrong. Give them the benfit of the doubt. Take the hate out of your heart.
LOVE YOUR FELLOW JEW, BECAUSE THEY ARE A JEW. And if they dont know…TELL THEM!!!