What does FB have to do with Half Shabbos (HB)?
Why is it called HB? If a child eats Treif where the public will know aren’t they called OTD?
HB is a new category. The kids, Rabbonim, & therapists call them HB and not OTD. The difference is (while some are on the way to OTD and texting is a stop along the way), these kids WANT to live a frum life. They like Shabbos and community and Yeshiva. They want to marry frum and raise frum kids that go to Yeshiva.
These kids will not drive to a movie on Shabbos, nor do they want to.
They “ONLY” (yes, it’s hard to comprehend for someone whi grew up in the 70s, 80’s, 90s when it was much harder to be frum and there was much more exposure to the outside world, yet would never think of being Michallel Shabbos) text on Shabbos.
Most give it up after their year in Israel and especially when they get married. This HB story broke 8 years ago. They are now adults. Where are all the frum married yidden walking to shul on shabbos texting?
There are many serious issues going on in the frum velt. But, let’s not confuse the issues. HB is only about texting. It has nothing to do with FB, eating treif, or mixed dancing.
