Whatrutalkingabt: I can respect you for that. I can respect your life choice, just as I can respect anyone else’s choices. Can you respect my choice to study long and hard to become a professional, contribute to society through my professional activities, and be an or lagoyim through my daily interactions and scrupulous regulation of my conduct by the Torah? Can you agree that we are equal but different so long as we both adhere to God’s law in all that we do – whatever that may be? Can you respect that I respect your choice, but may choose not to support it, and give my maaser to the family down the street whose father was fired from his job?
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