Reply To: What makes someone a Charadi?

A charedi is simply someone who is or wants to have the attitude of a Yorey Shomayim even though he/she has shortcomings in this department. It is a state of atitude, not of accomplishment or dress. The cab driver who barely can read lashon hakodesh, BUT IS TRYING, and he may not even be shomer shabbos YET, but is making strides toward that end; the Yeshiva Bochur who learns g’mara and not much else, who believes that in this way he is doing what Hashem expects of him, is also a yarei shamayim and charedi. The person who doesn’t decide for himself what he should be doing, but follows prescribed ideology from the G’dolim is charedi. It’s all attitude, my friends!!