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Popa: the point is, there comes a time when you have to put your foot down on ‘well meaning’ chumros. There are women walking around in burkas now. I live in rockland and have seen a few recently. Is that too far? Why? Its all for the sake of tznius. Who is to say what is a legit chumra and what isn’t? The rabbonim need to step up and stop being afraid to say ‘ad kahn’. Its easy to make chumors, it takes guts to give a heter or shoot down a chumrah because nobody wants to be out’frummed.
If its true that you don’t control subtitle then I apologize, but I have a sneaky feeling its not true.
Popa, 2 things.
1)Please explain how I missed the point. Don’t try to justify stupid (yes, stupid) chumros that never existed in yiddishkeit by comparing it to other ‘weird’ halachos that are issurai d’orayso. We follow mitzvos because that is what hashem told us to do. No questions asked. So some mitzvos may seem funny or outdated but we do them anyway. That doesn’t mean you can extrapolate that to cover every idea that pops into your head. If it was so important for women to walk on separate sides of the street, I think the tannaim and amoraim would have covered the issue.
2) I don’t know if you are trying to be funny with your subtitle (mildly retarded) but it is extremely offensive to parents and family members with retarded children.
Can someone explain me these questions:
1) How are we comparing a womans chiyuv d’orayso of going to a mikvah with some chumros accepted by a minority of the klal? Just because I follow halachah doesn’t mean I have to justify every chumrah that pops up.
2) How do people ‘inside’ the various chassidic sects post on these message boards? By definition aren’t they already ‘outsiders’ by having access to internet?