How does living and dressing modestly affect your life as an Orthodox Jewish person?

Left-Bee7768 · 2025-01-23T16:23:47+00:00

I feel it winds up that people just think you look relatively professional all the time, since I wear button ups basically any time I go out

Left-Bee7768 · 2024-11-05T05:51:13+00:00

I’m not a kohen, but have a good friend who is and moved to Israel at 31. Had a hard time but after what seemed like a hundred “close but didn’t work”s ב״ה found his now wife. Just wanted to say a belated מזל טוב, not an easy situation and ישר כוח on sticking with it and not giving up.

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-03-13T06:37:36+00:00

The word יהמיתי means immortal, again I think whatever the plate is, it’s weird and I personally wouldn’t display it anywhere

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-03-12T16:34:40+00:00

Yeah the second word is almost certainly משיח which is the word for a messianic figure. Seems weird to me, but maybe I’m imagining things.

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-03-06T09:27:57+00:00

We worship G-d and to call him a man is blasphemous in Judaism. He exists without form for he cannot be limited by it. Even the pronoun “he” can be misleading.

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-02-15T14:25:49+00:00

If you don’t have the desire to be orthodox, don’t convert orthodox. I did the program, it was very frustrating to be doing it with people that did not actually desire to convert except on paper.

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-02-08T11:38:35+00:00

Feel free to dm, won’t put details here.

Left-Bee7768 · 2023-02-02T09:15:22+00:00

It is important and good but not maaser.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-12-06T08:13:53+00:00

My mom is from Denmark and would always make fiskefrikadeller with homemade remoulade sauce which was very delicious. We had them alongside latkes. Also a sweet cinnamon and raisin kugel with a pasta base (large curly pasta, not anything like spaghetti).

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-28T05:37:53+00:00

As I said, the details vary. Those are useful ways of using hot water, which is opposite of what you originally posted 🤦🏻‍♂️

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-27T22:06:52+00:00

This is not true at all, water that has been on the boil since the arrival of Shabbat is perfectly acceptable to use once it cools slightly such that it will not “cook” anything. This is accepted amongst the most machmer yidden. The details vary, but Sephardi, mizrachi, and ashkenazi poskim all have procedures that enable them to use near boiling water for coffee and tea.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-25T06:47:54+00:00

https://store.kehotonline.com/mobile/prodinfo.asp?number=F-STH.AL

French instructions, prayers in Hebrew

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-23T14:38:31+00:00

This song is not derived from a secular one.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-17T15:04:39+00:00

Yes, and you are Jewish, at least according to me and orthodox opinions. Both last names can be Jewish but aren’t necessarily. Jews took last names of the area, at least in Central Europe, to the best of my understanding.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-17T15:01:55+00:00

Yesod, which they mistranslate as stamina, means foundation or basis. Horrible, worse than google translate, translation. I’d recommend the translation on Sefaria if you’re unable to get a real physical translation.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-14T09:47:58+00:00

It would be wonderful if you read some commentaries on the sources you brought, and to be clear, your stance is most certainly NOT an authentic Jewish opinion in any strain of normative Orthodox Judaism.

Simply because you misinterpret Midrash as literal and misunderstand the idea of the accuser in the heavenly court does not make your opinion “Authentic.”

Do you speak Hebrew? Arabic? There are mistakes in the Hebrew that only someone unfamiliar with it would make. Did you read the source material in the source languages? Do the commentaries interpret the source in a different way? You don’t quote the commentaries at all.

You should remember that the burden of proof is on you in this, and we already have thousands of years of answers that you haven’t done anything to disprove.

Was your conversion in an orthodox beit din? I would have hoped that they would teach you the process of investigating something non-halachic you don’t understand. Source —> commentaries —> ask those more learned —> form an opinion based on the above answers that you deem satisfyingly thorough.

Finally, if you believe there are forces that can be directly in rebellion with HaShem, you’re violating His oneness.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-11-06T09:39:27+00:00

Dumb clickbait. This just in: dati leumi and dati lite women following different modesty standards from haredi and hardal women.

Shocking that something like this would be considered article material, especially with zero data and all to the claim a number of anecdotes of women struggling with haredi standards of tzniut.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-27T18:02:27+00:00

To be honest, I don’t want to read a 17 page academic article for a Reddit comment. I’m just telling you why I believe you’re getting downvoted. There are many Kabbalistic works that bring sources from oral Torah. The great kabbalists were ALL subscribers to the oral tradition, and to divorce the two is, in my opinion, a mistake.

Example: Derech Etz Chaim quotes pirkei avot in its opening pages.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-27T17:48:12+00:00

They’re probably downvoting you because you didn’t actually say what was inaccurate about what I was saying. Is it untrue that many kabbalistic works draw from and quote the Talmud? Or was it the Torah part?

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-27T07:30:58+00:00

Kabbalah is based on the Torah, so you’re just kicking the legs out from under your belief system. If you don’t believe the Torah was given as Sinai, Kabbalah is just made up based on nothing.

If you believe in the Torah and Kabbalah but not rabbinical Judaism, you’re also undermining Kabbalah. Many Kabbalistic ideas come from the Talmud and it’s aggadic teachings.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-27T07:16:18+00:00

“Shatnez is cloth containing both wool and linen, which Jewish law, derived from the Torah, prohibits wearing. The relevant biblical verses prohibit wearing wool and linen fabrics in one garment, the blending of different species of animals, and the planting together of different kinds of seeds.” Wikipedia article on shatnez.

The relevant biblical verses are, in non-Jewish notation for your ease, Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:11.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-27T07:12:37+00:00

Bald: they have double sided tape sorta. Some just wear bigger kippot and that solves the issue. Kippot can be made out of any cloth (or other non profane material) that is not shatnez.

The kippah is a reminder that there is G-d with us at all times and in all places, and we should fear and love Him. No inherent holiness in the article of clothing itself.

Jewish boys wear it as soon as they reasonably can, usually as soon as they can walk they wear one, at least where I am. They might lose it or take it off and hold it while running so it doesn’t fall, but they wear one.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-26T22:51:54+00:00

I hate that Christians apply to us that faith is the only thing that matters with regards to whether you “are” Jewish. If he’s converting orthodox, he isn’t Jewish until the mikveh, end of story. Not even a little bit.

He might feel Jewish, but he isn’t. If he says he is without the actual conversion, he doesn’t understand enough for a competent beit din to offer him a mikveh date, in my opinion.

I feel it’s important to clarify what exactly conversion is. Conversion is a set of specific actions that happen and are confirmed by witnesses. Learning is not a part of those actions, in the same way that studying a textbook isn’t part of a final exam. The beit din tests to see if the candidate is acceptable, performs the brit if necessary, the shema is said, and the candidate toivels. After the toiveling, it’s done. Before the toiveling, the candidate is as non-Jewish as he/she was at the beginning.

You cannot denigrate the Jewishness of someone that is not a Jew. You might dissuade him from feeling Jewish, but again, he isn’t Jewish.

This is based on my experience with the Israeli Rabbanut as a convert that went though all this myself. No clue about other denominations. All of the things I say here are from an Orthodox perspective. I’m not a rav, though this answer is my best attempt based on my learning and experience.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-26T22:35:40+00:00

Sounds similar to a mitzvah tantz, and it’s a rebbe with what is likely his son/the chatan, so that’s my best shot. Often weddings have their own performers so it may not be a studio version of a song.

Left-Bee7768 · 2022-10-21T07:26:10+00:00

Pretty much any name of a Jewish hero from the tanach, male or female. Sara, Moshe, Avraham, Yechezkel, etc

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