tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186348180065102522.post8486384056622228893..comments2023-04-02T15:58:59.575+03:00Comments on Stand By Your Name: Do blue laws dovetail with Jewish observance? האם האיסור על קניות בשבת תואם לשמירת המצוותYam Erezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11343180272177901839noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186348180065102522.post-14561618308932437102011-04-13T12:26:46.509+03:002011-04-13T12:26:46.509+03:00FW, I'm glad you commented. By the way, I trie...FW, I'm glad you commented. By the way, I tried to visit Haven, Not Heaven, but it's restricted. Anyway, thanks for shedding light on the ultra-Orthodox mindset. I'm glad you used this example, because I'm familiar with this use of analogy; it's used heavily in efforts to attract young assimilated Jews to Orthodoxy, and I find it disturbing. While I suppose your mother has a right to use it on her own daughter, your sister on the other hand states her case quite articulately. By the way, how did you find my blog?Yam Erezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11343180272177901839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186348180065102522.post-79873453694528488382011-04-12T20:54:35.648+03:002011-04-12T20:54:35.648+03:00ברור שהחרדים יהיו מודאגים ממעשי התועבה של אחיהם הי...ברור שהחרדים יהיו מודאגים ממעשי התועבה של אחיהם היהודים- הרי כל ישראל ערבין זה לזה! <br />I feel compelled to post here an email from my non-religious sister to my (Charedi) mother, and her response: <br />My sister: "I wish you did not approach every time we talked or met as an opportunity to dismiss my life choices, and try to reflect your own vision for my life on me. I wish we could just hang out casually and just enjoy each others company. I wish you could make peace with the choices I made and respect them."<br />My mom: "If you saw a person stepping out into a busy street, wouldn't you try to stop them...wouldn't you consider it an obligation?<br />That's how I view it except that is only physical annihilation rather than spiritual.<br />Hashem should have rachamim on us for all our aveirot and for the spiritual destruction that we bring to the collective soul of Am Yisroel by our "choices" and aveirot."<br /><br />--I hope this gives you more of a sense of where the Charedim are coming from...Fettered Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484882885574458002noreply@blogger.com