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Moq, you seem to be a person with a lot of depth.
Do people honestly believe that mosherose truly feels, for example, that you are not allowed to look at one’s wife for an entire lifetime or other similiar comments that he made? Sorry, not me. I don’t believe that he is serious.
Are the Reform and Conservative still Jewish? This needs to be assesed individually, if an individual belonging to this group wants to become a BT.
Not just Reform and Conservative need to be assesed on a case to case basis, but every person who is not frum and thinks of himself as a Jew, needs to know if they are halachically Jewish or not.
There have been numerous instances of BT’s or their children finding out problems regarding if they are 100% halachic Jews or not. I have been saying for the longest time that it’s a big mistake to have this massive BT movement in America (as of today, the Israeli scene is totally different and the BT movement there should be encouraged). I say we should work on ourselves to be better Jews and be a light unto the nations through our behavior. Non religious Jews who want to become frum should know clearly how they are truly Jewish, not assume so.
I am not saying this because I feel callous towards all our Jewish brethren who don’t have the Torah to guide them. I am saying this because I beleive that we CANNOT KNOW, in this 21st generation, who is truly a Jew or not, unless each case is totally investigated and you cannot do that by casting out a net (be it on campus or the streets of Manhattan) and catching every fish that swims through.
cynical, I’d love to post a very long rebuttal to your comments, however, I don’t have the time. Suffice to say,that NOT ALL the Conservative “Rabbis” or laymen believe that the Torah is divine, that Hashem really gave it to us at Mt. Sinai. Nor do they pratcice true halacha. For example, in case you don’t know yet, a bunch of CONSERVATIVE Rabbis are giving sholom bayis classes for intermarried couples. There are numerous of such instances of blatant disregard for halacha, because as you described that our relationship with Hashem changes, so part of that belief is that some halachas can be disgarded, or changed, as time necessitates, because that is part of that changing relationship.
Maybe your opinion of the Conservative belief of a changing relationship with Hashem does not mean that we disregard some halachas because the relationship doesn’t necessitate it. If so, then please define what your (your own)Conservative ideoligy belief regarding our relationship with Hashem in todays’ generation. What do you mean with “our relationship keeps on changing”?
What is your opinion of Mesorah and minhugim? There’s where the slippery slope starts, btw, in case you didn’t realize, as Judaism becomes a PERSONAL interpretation of our own ideoligies and opinions (of course with those ideas changing in every generation).
And cynical, disagreeing with you is NOT sinas and is NOT keeping Moshiach away.
I believe mosherose is having fun posting stuff he does not believe in and seeing the reactions to his comments.
Whether he is off-the-derech, I can’t tell. I don’t beleive he is. But he is doing a good job as coming accross as genuine.
Ben Torah, he’s been posting along these lines for two years?
Oh my, maybe he is for real!
It’s normal that kids should fight.
Don’t blame yourself.
mosherose is just pulling everyone’s leg. I highly doubt he believes what he writes. I believe he enjoys seeing poeple fall for his comments.
mosherose, I think you’re hysterical.
“Basically, evolutionary theory is successful at predictions.”
Charliehall, evolutionary THEORY is as succesful at predictions as it is unsuccessful. Nobody could PREDICT how things were before recorded history. Scientists can theorize and make assumptions, no matter how intelligent and smart and knowledgeable they are. But that’s where it ends. They do not KNOW what happened. Evolutionists adopted their theory as a scientific” FACT.
Evolutionary theory is ALL THEORY based on assumptions based on the personal ideoligy of the scientists coming to “scientific conclusions” all “supported” merely on “scientific” assumptions.
You are right though that believing in the process of slow evolution into what the world is today does not contradict believing in a Creator, or even in the fact that the world “as we know it” is 5771 years old. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan writes about it in one of his books. I forgot how exactly he comes to his conclusion, (of course his ideas are all supported from accepted and revered sources, which he brings forth). I hope I find that book again, as I read it when I was a teenager and forgot exactly how he comes to the conclusion that evolution fits with the way the Torah states how old the world is.
Those scientists and people though who beleive that the world was created by itself, will eventually look as foolish as the ancient Egyptians who believed in their gods. For proof of a Creator we don’t need to go further than to acces our common sense. But as I read somewhere, common sense is very uncommon.
popa, Abusive people can be extremely charming when dating and before marriage.
Divorce will happen less when people will realize that that divorce should only be an option when their spouse is are verbally, emotionally, or physically abusive. Otherwise sorry, life is not a bowl of cherries. Learn to make the most of what gifts you do have. Be thankful of what you do have. Hashem sends a lot of gifts to us whether with our spouse or other gifts.
Happiness comes from inside of us, not from others, not even from our spouses.
And most of the time, if we work on becoming better people ourselves, if we work on our own middos, our marriage becomes better.
Dating longer is beneficial to avoiding divorce? Yeah can we surely need to learn something from the non-frum, secular society. Ahem. Sure, just look at the low divorce rates in the non-Jewish world. They are not changing spouses like hats, are they? That’s because they not only date for a very long time, but they also live together before marriage. Can you get to know a person better than that? Clearly the sholom bayis in the secular world is one we can learn from.
What exactly will you see when you date for longer? No human walking the face of this earth does not posess negative character traits. Which future spouse’s moral failings which you’ll definitely see more of the longer you date, can you live with? And people that seem nice on dates are not necassarily so. Just because a buchor is courteous to a waiter and says thank you is no indication that he will change the dirty daiper of your two year while your feeding your newborn.
I guess I was judging th OP incorrectly. 🙂
Gumboree fan talking here. They have great quality clothing you can pass down for other kids. (Stains come out nicely with Tide booster).
You can get great prices on Gymboree clothes by signing up online for coupons and working with the gymbucks. Their styles are the cutest ever!
BP Totty, I totaly agree with your post. Everything is blamed ones childhood. Interesting that I turned out different than my parents. That seems to be going against the law of the 21st century psychology.
Otherwise, I really like the story. It is written exteremely well.
By the way, this is the old philosopher/clearheaded talking here.
I judge others and am not jealous nor arrogant. There are many ways to judge. There are postive ways we judge people, such as being dan l’kaf zchus, or we judge unfavorable behaviour so that we do not accept such behaviour. Judging in a negative way as to why people do things that are not our business or is not wrong just different, is bad.
We judge people in our daily interactions with them, whether we realize it or not. It is simply human behaviour.