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Too bad YWN doesnt have a “Like” Button.
Id Liked CTW in a heartbeat
Maybe the frum world you’re in. Cuz where I live it’s not like that.
same here
I will repeat, perhaps where you live it’s like that. But not where I live.
There definitely needs to be a respect for fellow Jews. Even if we disagree with others, we can still respect them as fellow Jews. While an MO individual is not As strict, they basically follow the general halachot. One’s anger toward a fellow Jew is No better, since we also should consider bein adam l’chavero. We should be a good example to our children and show them that while we don’t hold by the MO hashkafah, we still respect them as fellow Jews.
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The rebellious teen
Another thing I want to mention is the teen themselves. They are going through a transitional time. They can go from a range of emotions like happy, sad, excited, confused, scared. There is so much they want to do like an independent adult, but they are not yet adults, and so they try to do what they can to express themself. That sometimes comes off as rebellious. But they don’t mean to be misbehave. They just don’t know what to do.
Pushing or pressuring them to do what we want, like davening, will only make go further away.
We want to help them, but we have to do it slowly and patiently. When they need to vent out their thoughts, let them vent, and just listen to them. When they are in a Good mood, talk to them and ask them How You Can Help them with what they need emotionally, academically, spiritually………
Some ideas I got from aish.com/f/p/Teenage-Rebel.html
When i was OTD I davened 3 times per day and perek shira everyday and tehillim and things it just had to do with the people i hung out with and skirts and pants and things. But, now I;m VERY interested in kiruv which i wasn’t before.
If you were davening 3x/day and saying tehillim, you weren’t off the derech, period. It could be that you’ve grown in your observance and hashkafa since then, which is wonderful. But you weren’t off the derech.
Before now, I was even MORE frum and i use to learn 24/7 and then somehow i ended up with the WRONG people and now i’m davening for them to go back on the Derech and there out in MO or mixed schools now and it’s VERY sad:( I almost stopped keeping shomer and wore very inappropriate clothes.
Then you weren’t otd, you just hung out with the wrong crowd.
Do you know any way that I can start doing kiruv and where? (as a teen girl)
You weren’t off the derech and neither were they. Incidentally, it is not necessarily a bad thing that they are “out there in MO schools”. Yeshivish is not superior to MO; it is just a different hashkafa.
If we notice a friend who seems to be slipping and is more lenient than before and is slipping more, we should show them we are still friends. Of course, we should be careful not to be influenced and slip ourself. But just be a good friend who they can talk to.
Do you think that otd means having a boyfriend? It’s sad if that’s whats considered otd even if you weren’t shomer (although you were). You could say you had a difficult time with those halachos but you weren’t otd. Otd is my keeping shabbos or kosher and not wanting to. As long as you felt bad not keeping certain parts of the Torah you were on the derech.
Jep, oorah..
Typo. Otd is NOT keeping shabbos or kosher.
Defining what OTD is doesn’t make much sense. It is a sliding scale based on your upbringing and the expectations that are put on you. I am sure there are sects where having a boyfriend or wearing a bathing suit could be considered otd. Or even eating chalav stam, etc.
Just be a good person, it’s more important than those that would never miss a minyan but may be doing other things bi’tzinah. Hashem will figure out the rest
I almost went to a mixed school. Everyone before would call me OTD and the place i live there more layed back then some other frum communities. The reason I stopped was because I wanted to marry a Rabbi and i still do “OTD” things just not in public like go swimminng in mixed pools, listen to not jewish music, go to the theatre, wear shorter skirts when i’m only with girls, etc… without people knowing because it’s not within the frum community and i eventually plan on stopping when H’H i’m married.
If you plan on stopping when you get married, you better start stopping now. People don’t change overnight…and you can’t expect yourself to do a complete turnaround the day before your wedding.
ohteedee-
you are wrong!!! who promised you Hashem will forgive???? what makes you so sure of yourself???
i can tell you that acording to all the defenitions here i was surely off i mean far from being on … and i will not go into details,,, and i seriously believe that Hashem does not forgive me, However i believe just as much that he enjoys and loves me for what i do do.
Off the derech cannot be defined as going off the derech that your parents or community raised you, otherwise if you do anything differently, you are “off the derech.” It has to be defined as going off of Hashem’s derech.
wow- keep hoping, keep believing he can. And i’ll keep hoping for yours and for my brother
@kkls45, yes, “off the derech” SHOULD be defined as going off Hashem’s derech…unfortunately, it now means going off whatever derech your parents told you to be on. For every MO who’s bemoaning that their kid drives on Shabbos is a chareidi sitting shiva for his son wearing jeans. Which is why nobody will ever be able to pin a definition on OTD.
wallflower- how many chareidim do you know who sat shiva for a child still frum but wearing jeans
yes definitions get warped in all areas of life. Many negative terms have been slowly extended to include those it shouldn’t. But just because something is done, doesnt make it right. One in particular has seen much debate here in the cr. But the only way to keep it from happening is to not accept it, to stand against the generalizations. Yes, every one person makes a difference, bec they can correct the term in all conversations they take part in. If we just let it go, we’ll have OTD soon being used teasingly among friends to refer to s/o doing something different than expected, including a quiet kid speaking up in class. Like retard became an insult, mental became an affectionate insult, and crazy became such an acceptable name to call others or their actions.
Okayyyy whew! Rant over :). Sorry bout that folks!
+1 says me!
Daven, daven, daven!!!
I think it has a lot to do with the “ladder” mentality. If someone never wore a hat, then not wearing a hat is no big deal. But if someone did, and now doesn’t, it’s important to find out why. Not because wearing a hat (or not) is the definition of OTD, but because it shows a slip in observance, something that should be discussed with him.
(BTW I have a friend who no longer wears a hat who is still perfectly Frum. His family has no problem with him and neither does our very-black-hat community.)
WOW: Still keeping you and your family on my mind and in my tefillos!
write or wrong: Whats going on with your son? You haven’t posted up anything lately regarding your son.
write or wrong: Whats going on with your son? You haven’t posted up anything lately regarding your son.
WOW: I am very happy about the positive change in him!! I hope he keeps it up!!
Did the people he hangs out with also go to that school?
It’s not that he has anything against being religious, but he feels his life is empty due to the abuse has been getting, so he needs to fill that part up, therefore he rebels, and the easiest thing to rebel against is to what he was brought up with.
wow- from everything you said it does not sound like he has a rebellious nature. I hope he works this thru and comes out stronger in his faith. I have seen it happen.
Glad to hear he is settling down a little and gaining some stability. It can only get better from here.
There is a huge difference between “Ben Sorrer OMorrer” and normal teenage angst.
Hanging out with girls is not the same as being a Juevenile Deliquent
Everyone has a rebellious nature, especially teens. Now what he’s doing, he himself is not happy about. Another point of why he’s rebelling, is he’s asking for help in a different way because he can’t bring himself to ask for help verbally, or because he doesn’t trust people (due to the abuse), but either way, when he rebels, he is expecting someone to ask him “What’s hurting you inside that’s making you to act the way you do?” or somthing to that effect. I think that was at the earlier stage of his rebelling, but now he feels he’s a lost case even though it’s not true.
Everyone has a rebellious nature, especially teens. Now what he’s doing, he himself is not happy about. Another point of why he’s rebelling, is he’s asking for help in a different way because he can’t bring himself to ask for help verbally, or because he doesn’t trust people (due to the abuse), but either way, when he rebels, he is expecting someone to ask him “What’s hurting you inside that’s making you to act the way you do?” or somthing to that effect. I think that was at the earlier stage of his rebelling, but now he feels he’s a lost case even though it’s not true.
smc- i think you may be assuming you know why he was going otd, or why people do in general, but there’s no one reason, or even 2 or 3. And even one kid who goes otd likely has multiple overlapping or combined reasons/causes. Yes what you’re saying definitely applies to some, but only some.
Wow- it’s really hard for someone to admit they need help. And even when they do, they’ve locked up the pain so deep that they’d rather not talk about it.
What’s going on with him now? I hope his back on now
WOW: You are constantly on my mind and in my tefillos! Hope you are holding up ?
Is he at least opening up some more and starting to heal?
What is going on? You did not keep us posted for a very long time!
Is he frum now? Its been quite some time:(
this isn’t a movie sequel, it’s someones life.
Write or wrong, we are still thinking of you. Hope you can see Hashem’s Hand guiding you all.
syag- thanks, i couldnt figure out how to say that.
Life is complicated kids. People go off for a multitude of reasons. Some just start going off, some are off for years then return, some change, some are lo aleinu gone forever. Its complicated, its painful, its ongoing, its a private struggle. We can daven and wish for the best, and thats as far as most of us can go in an anonymous poster’s difficulty. Then we can respect their privacy and emotions. Believe me, it’s not an easy nisayon… Sending a hug and hope for besuros tovos to all those with a child, sibling, parent, cousin struggling with his/her derech
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