joseph
“please be moichel if my shprach came across as too shtark. ”
The issue isnt your shprach. It is your am haaratzos. Youre not sure if ti is allowed? no problem say that. you know that there are legitimate mekilim but think it is better to be machmir? no problem say that.
Please dont misrepresent halacha, I know “Joseph is Joseph” (though sometinmes I too forget) but not all poters know and it creates a real zilzul. (Perhaps the Joseph is joseph” thread can be put up as a sticky or linked by clicking yoru name to remind everybody that your coments are, well, Joseph.)
“Are you okay with putting the Christmas gifts in red stockings too? After all, that isn’t the “ikkur” of celebrating Christmas either.”
No wh ywould I do that?
” Are you okay with giving your own kids Christmas presents? ”
No why would I do that. Though youve of course accused me of giving christams presents on Chanukah, though that is of course nonsensical)
“Or attending a corporate Christmas party? ”
Of corse I do, like many Frum yidden. Thoug they call it a “Holiday party”
“Putting up a Christmas tree?”
No why would I do that.
“All that, too, have little to do with “celebrating Christmas”, as you put it.”
Um, no that is the exact full celebration of Christmas as performed by most Americans today. you described their ENTIRE celebration. Im not sure what you are talking about. “Are you?