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<font size=3>At 10:35 AM 6/29/20 Rn T. Katz wrote:<br>
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In a message dated 6/29/2011 8:01:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
llevine@stevens.edu writes:<br>
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<dd>Please see
<a href="http://vbm-torah.org/archive/modern/11modern.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://vbm-torah.org/archive/modern/11modern.htm</a><br>
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completely anachronistic to call him "modern Orthodox"<br>
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he was Orthodox, a Torah Jew -- his enemy was Reform, not chareidim
(another term that would be anachronistic if applied to 19th century
Torah Jews)<br>
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He is the father and exemplar of all modern Torah-observant Jews, MO and
chareidi, if by "modern" you mean currently
alive.</blockquote><br>
IMO, neither of the terms MO and Chareidi have precise
definitions. <br><br>
If so, then how meaningful is it to categorize this or that one as MO or
Chareidi? I do not consider myself MO or Chareidi and certainly not
Chassidic. So what am I? A Jew who tries to be observant and
who thinks for himself. <br><br>
I often say cynically that my definition of MO is anyone who keeps
Shabbos and has indoor plumbing! >:-} <br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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