There's a snarky girl who's been commenting on the blog. She also has Emailed me some times. She said in the Emails that she has been to Queens and she wants to know where I've been that I'm having such trouble. So, I send her a detailed list, against my better judgement. She snarks back that she is skeptical of me because FFBs have been so nice to her. She then asks who I went through for my conversion and who my rabbi was and such. At this point, she's acting like she's already Jewish with her nasty attitude and questions that gentiles don't usually ask (and as I'm writing this I'm starting to suspect that I know who she is, a nasty-nice not friend of mine-Jewish)
Anyhow, the Email conversation disappeared and this is the reply I was trying to send but it seems she deleted her Email address, as well.
I saw your last Email before you deleted the conversation. FFBs are so nice to you, eh? Of course they are. You're not Jewish yet. Also, are these MEN??? Because my experience has shown that girls tell me they have FFBs/Chasidim being so nice to them and they are usually talking about men. You know that's highly inappropriate. No one is questioning my conversion. Someone else suggested this on the blog and I went and checked with my rabbi. I sensed that there was an attitude behind your Emails. It seems that I was right.
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מיכלטאסטיק
Since you are in Brooklyn perhaps the Mir yeshiva would be a decent place to check out out or Chaim Berlin. In general i have found that places that are more committed to Torah and Talmud (as opposite to orthodox Judaism) tend to be decent places.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that orthodox Judaism is as close to Torah as a table chart is related to a table. It is the name only that they share, not the substance. The reason for this is orthodox Judaism has a whole set of doctrines that are wrong but are import to it. To the yeshiva world that holds these same doctrines the difference is that learning the Talmud is the main thing and that overrides the cruddy doctrines. by learning Talmud they get a connection with the Divine that the evil doctrines of orthodoxy cant cancel out.
you can say my name to the acting rosh yeshiva of Chaiym Berlin (when Reb Yonatan is in Israel), Shelomo Haliua if that helps.
I'm not in Brooklyn.
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"In general i have found that places that are more committed to Torah and Talmud (as opposite to orthodox Judaism) tend to be decent places.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that orthodox Judaism is as close to Torah as a table chart is related to a table. It is the name only that they share, not the substance. The reason for this is orthodox Judaism has a whole set of doctrines that are wrong but are import to it."
To be blunt. Dude WTF? You can't seperate the two (allegedly different, accd to you). Seriously, are you really learning in da Mir or CB now? The days of the secret minim in yeshiva is so over (1890 or so, to be exact). Your premise may have made sense if you were arguing for someone to learn in JTS, or perhaps HUC, where one could study Judaism not connected to "orthodoxy" (I hate the term but since you used it...).
I think the better statement is "don't judge judaism by its (current) jewish practitioners".
And michal, I understand your not wanting to leave/give up a career choice/ etc, but I also never thought I could do that and yet here I am 10 years later...even if you move to a different neighborhood just to change the vibe (Riverdale is nice, even Staten Island. Still have the opportunities of being in NYC and can commute to work.
My (uncalled for) two cents, billig vee borscht, take it for what its worth :)
EX-Bklyn
I had no idea what he was talking about. I'm not a guy and all that stuff is stuff that they go out of their way to make sure women don't learn. Humph, maybe if I was like some of the other onversion candidates and I had run around with married supposedly frum guys they would have taught me such secrets.
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