oomis1105:
“i just like playing devil’s advocate. 🙂
And you do it SO well!!!! :)”
Huh? Was that to me?
“to say the Beis Hamikdash was DESTROYED and we went into exile for that – well, I cannot accept that.”
I’m sorry: you “cannot accept” what an Amora said?! I’m sorry, I thought we were confining the parameters of this debate to those of the basic beliefs of Yiddishkeit.
“I believe with all my heart that the RS”O wants us to follow His laws, to bring about a tikkun olam.”
Yes, and many of those laws involve tzniyus. You still can’t pick and chose.
“And for all the men who want to lay the tragedies of the world at the feet of women,”
Huh? Who’s doing that? Care to name even one instance of this happening?
“perhaps they should look at themselves as well, and see who it is in the vast majority, who is cheating each other in business, cheating on their taxes. Probably not the women.”
Of course, women never do anything wrong. Only men. Got it. So the problem is that the men think it’s all the women’s fault, but really it’s all the men’s fault.
And to think I managed to type that with a straight face.
Perhaps certain women in this forum who “want to lay the tragedies of the world at the feet of men” should similarly look into the mirror and see if they’re quite so perfect themselves.