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What Is Modern Orthodox Judaism? Too Strict On Halacha Or Too Lenient?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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page 14 a says someone that's looking for the stringencies only he wants to be ultra only stringencies everything's not allowed not allowed to look at anything even your own wife not to look at the wall close your eyes walk like this all the time guess what's next to you not let to eat unless it's sand because that has to be kosher not allowed to uh do nothing not to enjoy not to make money you have to be poor in the streets everything is not allowed why because maybe bet Shay said it's not allow everything is not allowed he's looking for the stringes ofay and says this this guy's a crazy person crazy person and someone that's looking for leniencies only leniencies what said said not allow what about okay said okay I'm a helan I'm I'm the H of H H called himself H because of me I'm going with next week where said said not allowed oh when Shai said Shai said oh that's why I loved that's why I always no deep inside I always loved shamai I always loved shamai I was really a shanian I was I was all the time sh all the time that's why I say sh what you think I sh no sh because I was thinking about Shai cuz he I knew he was going to say aloud this week but last week you said he live I didn't mean that I was just saying for you I was trying to make you feel better the week after that he live next week that person says shot why you can't just pick and choose rabis you can't look for uh pick rabbis like a shopping cart in a supermarket you have a finished yeah but there's another opinion that other opinion is for other people not for you not for you you go back that's it finished there's nobody else to look for unless it's something didn't cover if it's something didn't cover then you look for if it's something says you're allowed to go to a different then you could go but ifin on this and he said no or he said yes and you do other you are a sinner in sham yeah but this other Rabbi is also really big and he said it's okay yes but you don't hold like him that's why by the way there's no leniencies for Safari Jews to wear wigs why cuz says no no says no that's it yeah but the asazi they're also big yes they're wonderful they're big they're amazing they're but they're not for you yeah but there's another Safari P that say it's okay yeah but he's not really your P you hold 99% of the time you can just choose to hold this one on that one you can't pick and choose rabbis like this doesn't work like that and you know who made this mistake and continues to make this mistake every day and destroy the communities modern Orthodox modern Orthodox rabbis God blessed them to do chuv themselves so they're one of the things that many of them do I don't know if all of them do but many of them do is they give a lecture in the Yu strategy which is how speaker shows up the rabbi shows up but before he shows up somebody comes and gives every attendant a source sheet a nice folder of all the material he's going to SP speak about and all of the opinions he's going to mention he's going to tell you this posc said yes but later on this other P said no and this other one said maybe and this other one said yes and this other one said no yes no at the end of the lecture everyone's confused because he doesn't tell them what's the bottom line he just tells we have a lot of opinions and guess what happens modern Orthodoxy is born you know what's modern Orthodoxy I should pick whatever I want why he told me there's two opinions to there's 500 opinions to everything so I'm just going to pick one of them the specifically forbids this now serious within modern Orthodoxy are usually not really modern very much but nonetheless serious mod you know people know what's allow what's not allowed and how to choose what to choose but the general public doesn't know how to choose if you tell them I could choose a or b they're always going to pick whatever they want that's why there are still people that drive to onab don't think there's anything wrong with it why surely if somebody there's two opinions one says allowed to drive one says not allowed to drive like they figured that everything else the rabbi tells us has 87 opinions at least this one probably has a yes and a no what my first student my first student that ever came that started teaching Torah I told himin the first year I told him not to drive on Shabbat he looked at me funny said what do you mean I'm all to drive on Shabbat I've been driving on and Shabbat for 20 years I said I don't know you going to reform you go no go the same sh as you I said I'm sorry B not to drive on Shabbat he goes but I'm allow though right said only to the hospital if you're dying or somebody else is dying so unless you're dying every week on Shabbat you're not have to drive on Shabbat he was dumbfounded why no one ever told them no one ever told them so when you give people too many choices they end up choosing the wrong thing or nothing nothing and this is a tragedy because they're doing the work to show you that our Torah and our sages are literally endless and extraordinary but this is not to be taught to the general public in such a irresponsible way where you just leave it up to them to decide why if they're always going to look for leniencies they're Wicked and if the rabbi is looking for leniencies not just RAB not just and that's the problem today problem is that people don't know how to learn what to learn when to learn when yes when no this is why the Syrian Community the ashkanazi community the community the everybody is commun the foundation always has been why if you have you're going to know how to use the rest of the information you're going to know how to use you're going to know how to use the you know how to use everything else but without without fear of the almighty you'll distort everything you'll distort everything you'll do whatever you want and you'll end up becoming a naal a despicable person in the name of theah [Music] let me know uh what you think and make sure 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