Wolf: Re your long post; why do you not consider yourself mo?
I don’t want to go into it in length, but suffice it to say that there are some elements of the MO camp that make me uncomfortable. The same applies to other camps as well. Perhaps that’s why I don’t self-identify with any group.
I also notice you describe your wife as covering her hair in order to differentiate yourself from the mo,
No, that’s *not* why she chooses to cover her hair, nor did I ever say that it was the reason. She covers her hair because she believes it’s the right thing to do — finished. She couldn’t care less about labels such as MO, chareidi and the like. She follows the mehalech we both agreed to when we were going out — it has nothing to do with any particular “camp” that we belong to.
I’d rather not address this here, since it’s not germane to the topic, but suffice it to say, telling your kids “It’s okay to ask questions, but you’d better have these answers at the end of the day” is not allowing someone to think critically. And it’s not just chareidim — virtually all branches of Orthodox Judaism (including many in the MO camp too) have the same issue.
But that said, I don’t want to take this thread off course, so I’m not going to answer any further questions about this last point in this thread — so please don’t ask.
The Wolf