Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

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“ but my complaint was and is that the LR said that what the RBSO is doing doesn’t make any sense. The Chofetz Chaim would never have said something like that.”

I believe I answered this already. Shlomo hamelech couldn’t understand para adumah…

“ I am broadminded enough to accept that people struggle with any mitzvah. But I am not broadminded enough to accept that women who do not dress tzniusdik can be shluchos. Nor am I broadminded enough to accept that non-tznius is de rigueur (please add that expression to the list of those that I only use in the Coffee Room) in Lubavich circles without the Rabbonim expressly issuing statements ‘demanding’ (as strongly as demanding Mashiach) that women shouldn’t be machshil the men who are innocently walking down the same street.”

“The Rabbonim definitely speak about it- in empowering terms as the Rebbe did (even the sharpest sicha on it was empowering.) And so do the schools etc. We have a wide range of backgrounds here. Like I said, people don’t have to be perfect to go on shlichus. But they do need to fit the cap as far as values and basics. That’s for each head shliach to decide.

“ Not from what I and others have seen from Lubavich women. Don’t forget, it’s not only areas of the body that have to be covered, it’s the mode of dress as well. This, unfortunately, is a problem in a lot of MO circles as well.”

There are many women dressed tzniusdik in any lubavitch community. There are both (unfortunately). It’sa choice to learn and imbibe Chassidus on a regular basis- it doesn’t happen automatically. But within lubavitch there’s always who to look up to and where to grow ad ain sof