jewishfeminist02 “He pontificates about how a Jew should lead his life.”
Right, and the rest of us never do that.
you missed thee point! someone who is not observent should not preach to observent jews how to lead their lives. everything that zevi says reeks of apikorsus. he is nebach a apikorus, who is unaware, or denys basic halacha. zevi also stated that we are less than 10%. So what? Observent jews have to conform to the majority? No, they have to conform to us because we follow the true torah. Its interesting to note that one time a tzedduke (i may be misquoting the story, so please correct me) aske a tanna or amora: it says in your torah “thou shaleth follow the majority”, so therefor why dont the jews follow in the ways of the nations who are the majority? He answered that this law only applys if there is a doubt, we dont have adoubt!
agav by lowering our standard to conform to the nations, and to mekarev others is wrong. Why? b/c if we lower our standards it shows that their way of life has validity just like ours, and we could compromise. Truth need not compromise, and if you feel the the torah is not true then regect it totally,and please and dont try to corrupt it.you feel the