BPT
Im proud of you, way to go. The Emes is, if one is determined enough, he can go Heter shopping and keep ever Kuladik shitah in everything. However such a person is likely on a slippery slope to a non mitzvah observant lifestyle.
Talking about a story with a Yarmulka, I hear a really good one. There was a bright Jewish guy who passed his bar and was interviewing at various prestigious Law Firms for a job. Well he has an internal struggle if he should wear his Yarmulka or not and decides that its better not to wear it and he will have a better chance at landing a top job at a top firm.
Long story short he gets interviewed by a very big prestigious firm and the interviewer likes him. He is ready to give him a job, however the policy of the firm was that all new hires had to meet with one of the senior partners. Well the new recruit excitedly enters the office of the senior partner and he sees a nice Orthodox Jew sitting in the chair. The senior partner says “you are a bright fellow and on merit you would deserve the job, but someone who is not strong in his beliefs and is willing to bend the rules doesnt have integrity and is not cut out for this company, we need real men here.”
2 lessons one can learn:
1. These days any Jew can go far wearing a Yarmulka and even having a beard.
2. Bending the rules and seeking Heterim will not pay off in the long run.
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