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<font size=3>At 10:15 AM 6/24/2011, Beth & David Cohen
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">"Translation: An
observant Jew should be honest -- should be ethical,<br>
should have integrity, should be principled -- and should /also/ be
refined<br>
in<br>
his dress, speech and manners.<br><br>
If he keeps Shabbos, keeps kosher, keeps the mitzvos -- he is
frum. It is<br>
not a /bad/ thing to be frum, it's just not enough for a
fully-developed<br>
Torah Jew.<br><br>
<br>
--Toby Katz"<br><br>
I always thought that it is a mitzva to be ethical, honest and have<br>
integrity. "V'asita hatov v'hayashar" for starters. So how can
it be that<br>
being honest and ethical is outside the definition of being
"frum" if you<br>
define frum as "keeping the mitzvos"?</font></blockquote><br>
WADR to Rn Katz, what she wrote reflects the disconnect between Torah
learning and Torah living that Aharon Hersh Fried writes about in
his article at
<a href="http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf</a> <br><br>
For many, being observant focuses on the mitzvos bein Adam LeMakom
and the mitzvos bein Adam L'chaveiro are often treated as being of
secondary importance or even ignored. <br>
<br>
RASH points out the in the Luchos there are five mitzvos that are bein
Adam LeMakom and five that are bein Adam L'chaveiro. He then says that
both of the Luchos were the same size! In other words, both types
are or equal importance. YL<br><br>
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