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PPP, I could not agree with you more. So concerning how the attention span of our people has become 0 and an event addressed by gedolei torah and where an azkara for the kedoshim is made, is called a “levaya”. why? because there weren’t entertainers. In the siyumim 22 and 29 years ago, you didn’t have any singing and dancing and no Pesach Krohn presenting gemoras. yet the attendees sat and listened to the gedolei torah attentively and respectfully.
This is not an issue in and of itself, it is part of a much larger and sickening trend among us “Yeshiva People” where all of our gashmius must be top tier. Look at the houses yungeleit live in today in Lakewood and other in-town kollel communities or the cars they drive or the furniture they buy (must be ordered from Italy!). Do you think for a second that R’ A’ Kotler imagined Lakewood becoming the trend setter for style in home decor, clothing, kiddush cakes, kitchens and (you’ll excuse me) the features and size to look for in the girl you are going to marry? The fact that Haimy doesn’t give credit to the MO for seeking more important qualities when they look to get married, but instead chalks it up to rampant divorce is both ignorant and failing to look in the mirror. His second reason is at least more on target.
Chances are that some of the people going by male names are in truth female and vice versa. That thought alone should give pause to anyone who would potentially get inappropriate feelings of uninhibitedness, thinking they are conversing with the opposite gender.