Toi: And my argument is that who cares what those people do? Everyone who sees me will know I am Jewish by my Kippah and Tzitzis. I am supposed to suddenly add something else because some nutcases want to wear Tzitzis? Clothing should identify us as Jewish, not create artificial stratifications within Judaism. I know an elderly man who recently became a Ba’al Teshuvah. He has a long white beard. He was once visiting a Shtiebl in Israel, and they saw him, called him “Rabbi”, gave him an Aliyah, and asked him to give a D’var Torah. He doesn’t even speak Hebrew. It’s ridiculous that people take one look at you and decide what kind of person and Jew you are based on it. I follow Halachah, so I wear a Kippah and Tzitzis. Judging me by more than that from how I look is just wrong.
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