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after clinicals today, one of my clinical mates asked me a question. he prefaced his question by saying, i dont mean to be offensive or anything but i just want to know so i’m not ignorant of the fact…. basically i knew it was gonna be a question on yiddishkiet. i’m the only frum person in my group so i’m used to it already. he asked me about 2 frum men in our program-lets call them Abraham and Issac. he said to me how come Abraham and Issac dress differently? (Abraham dresses like a penguin and Issac dresses in colored shirts and non black pants-grey, navy etc) so i answered the way a person dresses is based on a few things, including where a person went to school, how he grew up, how he wants to dress etc. then he asked me, is it because they are from different groups? (he used the word group not sect) so i answered although they are from different groups, i don’t believe it may be the primary reason they dress differently. ( i did not want to go into chassidish vs yeshivish vs non-yeshivish vs all the other groups.) he was satisfied with this answer but was i correct in the way i explained it? how would you of done it?
Tell him it’s a cultural thing. What connects us is a common adherence to the same rules and practices. Beyond that it’s simply a cultural thing, if you come from one community you’ll dress one way and if you come from another you’ll dress differently.
From what I know, you were correct.
yes you were correct
It sounds like the perfect answer. Answering that it is because of the group might give the impression that it is a subreligion, the way Christianity has many religions with one common beginning. It is important that they understand that we are one people and believe in the same things, although there are differences in preference.
“nurse i was working with asked me if all jews are circumcised”
No just the males.
That’s a good question. Another good question is, say conservative and reform do bris milah, how correctly do they do it? Are they using a halachicly correct mohel etc?
The bris itself is pretty much 100% compliance. But I don’t think they opt of meztitza b’peh, or have an issue of pushing it off to a convenient day (ex: if the 8th is not a sunday)
“nurse i was working with asked me if all jews are circumcised”
No just the males. “
Goq, that is PRECISELY what my immediate response was!
The reform members of my husband’s family all used certified Mohelim and real Brissim on the 8th day. One of the mohelim was a Krohn, who really did an excellent job explaining the importance of bris milah to a crowd of people who were only marginal Jews, at best.
It is important that they understand that we are one people and believe in the same things, although there are differences in preference.
Do we really ? Don’t you have difference is beliefs with other jews, despite your acknowledging their “orthodoxy” ?
The concept of a “religion” which allows room for different stands, despite still being the same “group”, may be hard to explain (and many of us don’t understand!), but is still true
My husband has a lot of reform/conservative relatives most of them (not all) did do a bris but some of them had a doctor do it.
Lol thank you Oomis i couldn’t resist but then again i never can.
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