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SanFranciscoZionist2/03/2010 10:04:00 am PST

re: #510 LudwigVanQuixote

OK that is fair.

To me the whole cross dressing thing really is the Halachic reason. If I was taught incorrectly at Yeshiva then so be it.

BUt you are correct that it is not the real issue for me. The real issue for me is one of preserving the Tradition somewhere where it ought to be preserved.

I tried downstairs to make a less emotional example. I will use it up here.

If you eat a ham sandwich, you are certainly still a Jew. I certainly believe that G-d still loves you. I certainly do not believe He will zot you for it.

However, if you eat a Ham sandwich and call it Traditional Jewish food, we have an issue.

There is a difference between your private right to eat what you wnat and your public righ tto impose your untraditional views on me in the center of the Tradition.

You would not eat a ham sandwich and call it Jewish. YOu certainly, I hope would not bring one to the Kotel.

If you do not ask, why do I not have a right to eat ham at the Kotel immidiately, then you completely understand my point. The answer is because not only is it just not done, but it is honestly disrespectful of the Tradition as established ages ago.

Whether or not you care for the reasons that the Tradition was established, we can agree that it certainly was. It is wrong to do otherwise in the same way it would be wrong for a Catholic to go to the Vatican and do something out of the norm of whatever is expected of him or her at Mass.

I hear what you’re saying, but as I say, I do not actually accept that women davening together is trayf, nor that a woman wearing a tallis is, nor even that it is outside the range of acceptable Jewish tradition.