minyangal: Let me join the chorus saying that you are right and the official troll-in-residence is wrong again. Prayer is a very important mitzva, in fact easily one of the most important. If you attend minyan every day and make all the zmanim, you have a better record than many Orthodox. I won’t sugar-coat it by saying that I think you’re doing the right thing, because I don’t. As far as I’m concerned you are violating halacha in a way that has historically caused major divisions in the Jewish nation, but that doesn’t negate the fact that you are davening and I don’t see how a Jew can tell you to stop. Keep it up.
prof:
a- I’m currently giving shiurim to Jews with next to no Orthodox background. Can I pick your brain a bit about topics?
b- The Lithuanian/White Russian Jews paskened from the chayei adam who requires women to daven shmoneh esrei. Just another factor for the discussion.