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I don’t know about the Halachic aspect of children going to the Mikvah, but speaking from common sense, I don’t see how a child can be expected to respect his rebbeim after seeing them undressed.
Rew,
Perhaps you should object to a specific thing Cent has mentioned that is wrong from your viewpoint, thereby opening a discussion that has the potential to be enlightening rather than hurtful.
Um.
Cent,
I wouldn’t say ANY civilization that doesn’t have the Torah as a guideline to life will inevitably become a barbaric or cruel civilization… Immoral? Certainly. But not cruel and barbaric.
Well, maybe they’ll do cruel and barbaric things, but they themselves will not necessarily be cruel and barbaric people.
That has the potential to be a massive chilull Hashem. Orthodox Jewry will get an even worse reputation than they already have… That’s really unfortunate, but I suppose if that if it’s halachically prohibited to publish pictures of women, as the article on YWN states, then that’s just too bad.
Here’s something I’m really curious about:
What will all of the Jewish newspapers (Yated, Ami, Mishpacha, Hamodia) do if Hillary Clinton is elected president in 2016, as seems likely to occur? Will they refrain from publishing any pictures of the president for the entire 4 to 8 years of her presidency?
I am not asking this to poke fun at their policy of not publishing pictures of women; I am honestly curious.
That’s gorgeous, Mik5. Thanks for sharing.
My issue with that article is that it’s not practical. Once you take it down from atop the fluffy cloud it’s lying on, you realize that there are many ways a person can show that he is focusing on building a relationship with Hashem. The one action of keeping one’s eyes closed during Shemoneh Esrei means absolutely nothing if the person whose eyes are closed is thinking about things other than Hashem as his eyes are closed, and a person can have the utmost kavanna while his eyes are focusing on the red tile on the floor in front of him, you know?
The idea that the action of closing one’s eyes is what determines whether he feels terror or happiness at the moment of his death is troubling.
Jewish thinker,
Agreed. It is troublesome that the first thought some people have after reading the words “Fathers Day” is so negative.