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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>There is a lot of power to creating a communal feeling and communal</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>loyalty. If we relayed our own variant of the theme of Yahadus that</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>these unique practices were associated with, some notion of a qehillah</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">>and its vision to feel attached to, they would bind rather than alienate.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While generating communal loyalty - with all the external trappings, may be important, I am surprised that it is so high on the scale for someone who is a ba'al mussar - after all, frumkeit, against which you rightly rail - is essentially due to group loyalty - with transformation of avodat Hashem to being part of one's group...</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In essence , focusing (and being machmir)on Kitniyot is for many in some ways the height of frumkeit - in its negative sense - except for a few yech idea segura.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think kids at risk are attuned to what they see as hypocrisy and problematic scale of values - and emphasizing Kitniyot ( note - not talking about abolishing Kitniyot - just the emphasis..) feeds into this </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meir Shinnar</span></div></span><div class="mailbox_signature">—<br>Sent from <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox">Mailbox</a> for iPad</div>
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