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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Micha Berger <A href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>: I unequivocally
reject your premise that the word "frum" was ever used as <BR>: a
derogatory term in the Litvishe Yehiva world...[--TK]<BR><BR>Do you have a
source for contradicting R' Wolbe and my grandma?<BR><BR>Tir'u
baTov!<BR>-Micha<BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Yes, my parents and my grandparents and everybody I ever knew before I
started reading Avodah. And even R' Wolbe (assuming he was quoted
correctly) was referring to something that had happened sociologically among
frum people, where their frumkeit stopped being genuine. The same with the
quote allegedly attributed in these pages to RAK. And I suspect
the same with your grandma. The word "frum" had to have a generally
understood meaning before people could come along and use it sarcastically and
say things like "Frum is der galach." That ironic statement would have no
meaning at all if the word frum had not been generally understood to refer to
observant Jews. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><STRONG>--Toby Katz<BR>================</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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