Frumster has a pretty good list of labels to stereotype the people on their site, so I decided to throw in my own two cents and give you folks the real definition. Sure it’s negative, cynical, but it’s fun and true, so why not?
Modern Orthodox Liberal
These tend to be individuals who are Shabbat and Kosher observant, but have a more “relaxed” or “open” approach to Halacha, sometimes accepting leniencies that are not accepted by those who espouse strict adherence to the dictates of the Halacha. Such individuals may, or may not be involved in regular and consistent Torah learning or prayer, although the general tendency is to be more “relaxed” in these areas as well. A commonality amongst this group is that they are open to secular activities such as bars, clubs, and movies. [click to continue…]
The first time I heard this one, I was talking to a girl whom I was dating, she told me that her Rabbis wife had told her that she had specifically looked for a Baal Teshuva when getting married so he would know how to please her in bed. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but as years have gone by, I have learned a few things and one of them is that just because you can have loads of sex without having the book thrown at you – doesn’t mean you do. [click to continue…]
The walls in my yeshiva dorm were painted white, thus one of the favorite places to stash cigarettes was to tape them outside of the package to the wall. It was a strange practice, made even stranger when those same folks would take the cigarette off the wall, tuck it behind their ear and tell the dorm councilor they were going down the block to CVS, when in reality they would go past CVS, find a dumpster and go smoke behind it. Then you had the kids who kept their cigarettes in their freezers, shoes, cereal boxes and other regular stuff that was located around the room. In fact, cigarettes were kept in pretty much the same places that porn was kept and I always wondered if it was really worth the trouble. [click to continue…]
I laughed suddenly, as I hiked briskly up the Pine Ridge Trail into the Ventanna wilderness, I have this habit recently up laughing like a wild man whenever I realize that I am finally living my dream. I can’t believe I am finally living in the west, I am standing about 1500 feet above a raging river, walking along a sandy trail that snakes its way through a canyon, I can see four to five thousand foot brush covered mountains in the distance, I pass the occasional blackened redwood – scarred from a large fire in 2008 – the fading sunlight makes the trees seem more stark against the bright green surroundings. [click to continue…]
Someone mentioned to me the other day that pedophilia was never really banned by the Torah, does this mean that it’s not morally reprehensible for a person to be into children? If there is no halacha against fondling your childs best friend, I guess it’s ok, right? This is just a continuation of my trying to understand those that go by every little thing the torah says, I myself have struggled for some time with the Torah dictating our morals, if morals are an ever changing thing. [click to continue…]
It’s Tu B’Av, so I figured I would write something about girls.
In my second year of high school an amazing thing happened, Rochester got its very own girl’s school and us yeshiva boys were ecstatic. We couldn’t believe our luck, there were actually going to be frum eligible teenage girls running around available for the taking, none of us knew what we were in for, but we figured it couldn’t be too bad. [click to continue…]
In yeshiva I found a wallet while riding my bike once, after telling someone, I forget who, possibly a beis medrish guy – he told me some shocking news. He told me that there was a whole gemara about not returning things to non-Jews and not giving them gifts, I was shocked and super happy at the time, years later I regret the whole incident, but my Rosh Yeshiva confirmed the news, he said that the guy could get a new license and the chances of him knowing what a Jew was were slim and that meant that no Kiddush hashem could be made so halachically I shouldn’t return it. [click to continue…]
Seriously folks, how much do you think your penis is worth? What about a piece of your penis? How much would you sue for if the mohel screwed up and botched your bris. Botched Bris – I can just see a documentary or something about the evils of forced circumcision for religious reasons. Well a company that makes something called the Mogen Clamp (I don’t want a clamp anywhere near my penis) is going out of business after a judge ordered them to pay 10.8 million dollars in damages to the family of a boy who lost more of his penis during a bris than he wanted to.
I feel bad for the kid, but this story made me crack up and then I felt guilty because it was tisha b’av.
Depending on your hashkafic back round, the following items may or may not hurt your chances of finding a good shidduch, . I have heard about the table cloth thing for years – you know, if your family doesn’t use a white table cloth you’re out, but no one has actually confirmed this for real – causing me to place it in the urban legend stack. Now if your parents were baal teshuva or if you went to school with a wrinkled bais yaakov uniform – those are real issues that may cause your shidduch market value to fluctuate. [click to continue…]
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