Wolf – “Your trust in them is greater than the Shulchan Aruchs and the Gedolim.
I think she probably knows her kids better than the Mechaber and the Gedolim.”
That doesn’t mean that we can change the halacha. As we know, Shlomo Hamelech was punished for having many horses and wives, even though he felt that the reasons stated in the pasuk did not apply to him. (Squeak, hope I made you proud:))
“A suggestion if I may… Please insert a blank line between the quote and your response. It makes it much easier to read.”
I actually used to do that, but for some reason if I put a double blank line it turns into one, and I felt it was more important have a unique separation between responses to different comments than between quotes and responses. However, I have recently picked up the _____ idea from lavdavka, so I’ll use that for the separation between responses between different comments. Like the new look?
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Oomis 1105 – “I just find it so telling that so many of the CR members seem to assume that getting together in a mixed group AUTOMATICALLY leads to sin.”
I do not think that each and every mixed gathering is doomed to end in sin; however, I think that if all events are mixed, then yes, aveiros will almost certainly occur.
“I think first of all, that some people’s minds are too troubled by the fear that our kids are so poorly brought up that they have absolutely no way to go but to SIN. That says a lot about how confident we are that we have brought them up properly, Yeshivah education and our own teachings.”
As has been said before, the Gemera mentions the strength of the yetzer hara for arayos, and cautions how careful we must be about it. I don’t think it says anything about “how confident we are that we have brought them up properly, Yeshivah education and our own teachings” – I think it means that we feel that when it come to aveiros, better safe than sorry.
“I am saddened that so many appear to have no faith at all in their young people.”
There is a fine line between faith and naivete.