“observant”teen: Let’s take your post piece by piece.
Sheigetz:
Thank you.
S-O-R-R-Y etc.
OK. Now it’s my turn to rant.
<div id=”rant”>Correct me if I’m wrong, but your attitude seems to indicate that you don’t think the errors were a big deal. Compared to the error of thinking that, you’re right, they weren’t. In non-reconstructionist Judaism (even reform believes this to a degree), we believe in something called the Halacha. That is, a body of law and custom derived from the Chumash interpreted and added to over the centuries by the rabbis collectively known as “Chazal” or “Rabboseinu za”l”. This halacha is considered the word of God to the point that the gemara can take a takana d’rabanan and introduce it by saying “Rachamana Amar,” The all-Merciful(Hashem) says. That means, halacha is what God says, not what we say. The fact that somebody somewhere thinks that x is more appropriate than y or that y contradicts a particular Torah value does not mean that y is assur. Even if it’s with a noble intention, you cannot wave a magic wand and say that it’s halacha. I won’t get into the slippery slope argument by listing others who have tried to do the same thing. You don’t want to do it, gay gezunteheit. You want to make others stop, open a shulchan aruch and find where the problem is.
Mazal tov on the wedding.
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Oh, and please don’t quote a MO Rabbi as your Mekor
Why, you’re afraid he knows something?