Reply To: Info on BMG

As crazy as it sounds, I went to a public high school with a significant percentage of the student body being unaffiliated jews, some who barely know anything other than krusty the clown in the simpsons portraying every jewish stereotype. Some who attend reform hebrew schools with teachers who are chiloni israelis who resent chareidim and turn off their students from yiddishkeit, some who attended a day school that is not frum and the only way they could operate was by accepting goyim in the school meaning the kids at that day school had classmates who went to church on sunday. Many had parents who went off the derech and have grandparents who are frum that refuse to talk to their grandchildren who did nothing wrong and as a result they resent their frum grandparents. And other tragic stories like this … I live in an area full of apikorsus, I have cousins who won’t talk to me because I am not zionistic. Why do you think kiruv is so hard, how come half our countrys jewish population feels the need to intermarry and disregard our mesorah, or at least the fragment they knew, why is bris milah so controversial, why did someone need to write a book about rescuing jewish kids who were brainwashed by christian cults, what about the chassid who became a muslim terrorist? All of these aveirahs lead to extra money in olam hazeh but nothing in olam habah. Your lucky that even though I am a bt, that I am very strong in my level of yiddishkeit because otherwise the lack of critical thinking on your part would have made me reconsider my decision to become religious. I grew up with these stereotypes ingrained in me as a little kid… you clearly have been involved in a community that discourages questions and therefore are deficient in your critical thinking… our sages were excellent in critical thinking yet now, we can’t even give powerful answers and when I do try to analyze something people think I am nuts… rethink your answer and come back…