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yytz: Thank you, that is an excellent article. I posted some below:

“When you come to Heavenly court, remember that someone once told you that this whole way of life is false. Don’t say, “I didn’t know.” I’m not saying this to make you guilty there. But some people have to stand up and say, “Enough! The party is over!

“There were errors many hundreds of years ago that our rabbis tried to remove. But there are other errors that have surfaced in the last few generations. We are here in a world where every average person has what a wealthy man did not have a thousand years ago. One does not see these as luxuries, but as necessities.

You are living like gentiles. Your homes are hardly different from the homes of the gentiles.” Do you think Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Aharon Kotler, or one of the Chassidic rebbes would come in with his wife to eat in such a place? Of course not! Would our Avos have gone to such places?