So yeah, I am a neo-chassidic environmentalist hippy. Thank G!d. Maybe I wasn't clear in my interview, but I have a lot of respect for the tradition and its practices (in fact I spent the day in crown heights learning in a chassidic yeshiva). That being said, orthodoxy - (everyone believing the exact same thing), has never been the status quo in Jewish history and scares the crap out of me. I don't really know what the difference is between it and fundamentalism. Orthopraxy (following normative halachah) is something I have a lot of respect for and is quite close to my personal practice.
If anyone out there has harder questions that you would like to see me struggle with, I think that sounds like fun. Post them and I will try my best to answer them.
Getzel
Soccer, I guess you pigeonholed holed me
So yeah, I am a neo-chassidic environmentalist hippy. Thank G!d. Maybe I wasn't clear in my interview, but I have a lot of respect for the tradition and its practices (in fact I spent the day in crown heights learning in a chassidic yeshiva). That being said, orthodoxy - (everyone believing the exact same thing), has never been the status quo in Jewish history and scares the crap out of me. I don't really know what the difference is between it and fundamentalism. Orthopraxy (following normative halachah) is something I have a lot of respect for and is quite close to my personal practice.
If anyone out there has harder questions that you would like to see me struggle with, I think that sounds like fun. Post them and I will try my best to answer them.