tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836379088405065709.post1937263451235512466..comments2023-09-05T11:57:38.728-04:00Comments on My Perspective: Jews are GreatCritiquerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14788007492647988964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836379088405065709.post-35040780134249911142010-07-28T06:30:26.527-04:002010-07-28T06:30:26.527-04:00YEAH!
I like!YEAH! <br />I like!BusyTiredMumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866679580769412026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-836379088405065709.post-898970666439779132010-07-09T06:54:07.332-04:002010-07-09T06:54:07.332-04:00Hashem gave us a Torah that was itself a challenge...Hashem gave us a Torah that was itself a challenge to keep and then it became more challenging when we were exiled from our land. Trying to keep Torah and mitzvahs in countries that are not ours and in which we are a tiny minority is an enormous challenge. <br />Still, I am happy to be part of a people who isn't raising suicide bombers or telling its young to join religious orders that don't allow marriage. The idolatrous religions that existed before the Torah was given involved human sacrifice so the Torah rescued us from falling into that. <br />Because the goyim have taken the basic ideas of the Torah and then stated that the mitzvahs were no longer necessary and made a whole religion out of that, this has prevailed in America and the Reform movement and eventually the Conservative movement based their ideas on that.<br />Those of us who still adhere to the Torah are trying to achieve what seems to be an enormous and even impossible task. We are trying to raise generations of Torah Jews in a bad economy that does not bode well for organizations that depend on donations. Chinuch has become oppressively expensive and is in danger of becoming unavailable to some. It is harder economically and emotionally to raise large families in today's American society and in EY the secular society is cutting the funds to the heredim. We as frum American Jews also want to observe our mitzvahs in comfort and this too adds to the cost when meanwhile, we are not educating our young to be highly paid professionals. We have to take stock of our priorities before we end up with a community that cannot sustain itself.rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03750230430610565818noreply@blogger.com