tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337887555862662350.post8749679414203869152..comments2024-01-18T07:59:31.728-08:00Comments on The Second Son: The RashaG*3http://www.blogger.com/profile/06104739087560005056noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337887555862662350.post-65120142577981432452012-01-13T18:52:21.074-08:002012-01-13T18:52:21.074-08:00I am so late to get here, but am really glad to ha...I am so late to get here, but am really glad to have come. I feel like I'm in very like-minded company. A rare find. What an amazing post.C. Laundryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458967193329329707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337887555862662350.post-54898971486096782302010-06-30T10:35:41.731-07:002010-06-30T10:35:41.731-07:00(this comment is a tad...late)
So this is who you...(this comment is a tad...late)<br /><br />So this is who you are. Funny, I only began asking questions much, much later in life. <br />As a child, I <i>loved</i> Orthodox Judaism, and aspired to it even though my family wasn't strictly Orthodox in practice. <br /><br />Orthodoxy sounded true, felt right, and my happiest childhood memories revolve around the ritual observances, Shabbat and chagim.<br /><br />It is only in the autumn of my life that I am questioning, mainly Rabbinic Judaism, but also Torah mi-Sinai. But I still lead a frum life, because of its beauty, and its <i>mayain olam habah</i> aspects.<br /><br />I guess that when we die, we will find out the truth. Meanwhile, we should live the holiest life we can (whatever that means).Lady-Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992305067771885711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337887555862662350.post-61166816591797129592009-04-20T15:05:00.000-07:002009-04-20T15:05:00.000-07:00Why am I still practicly frum? A few reasons, but ...Why am I still practicly frum? A few reasons, but the most significant one is that it never realisticaly occured to me not to be. Being the socially inept person that I am, making it in a different world would have been extremely difficult.G*3https://www.blogger.com/profile/06104739087560005056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337887555862662350.post-65304578795989418402009-04-20T10:41:00.000-07:002009-04-20T10:41:00.000-07:00I was you in high school. They took away my salud...I was you in high school. They took away my saludatorian spot because I would no longer daven in the morning and my Judaic studies teachers questioned my "commitment to yiddishkeit." My favorite rabbi, who had more patience for my questioning nature gave me a gift of mussar books at graduation, something he did for no one else, I assume, in hopes it would help me stay "on the derech." Teachers warned my parents that if I went to a secular school, I would end up not frum and they should send me to Stern College (YU for women). I guess they were right to be worried. By twenty I left altogether. By twenty-two a married a guy just like me, and ex-OJ.<br /><br />My question to you is, from what I can tell, you still lead a frum lifestyle. What kept you there? Are still some religious beliefs that remain intact for you that keep you hanging on? Is it committment to family? A love of the lifestyle?TikunOlamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05640691410118934075noreply@blogger.com