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<a href="http://traditionarchive.org/news/originals/Volume%2036/No.%202/Yiddishkeit%20Without.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://traditionarchive.org/news/originals/Volume%2036/No.%202/Yiddishkeit%20Without.pdf</a>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Let me be absolutely clear:
where the demands of halacha are unambiguous,<br>
you must submit to them. But how does one navigate between<br>
much less well-defined traditional attitudes and strong personal
inclinations?<br>
When I was your age I didn't know the answer-I still don't-but<br>
one proposition that seemed self-evident to me at the time was that
it<br>
</font>was essential to be consistent. In other words, I felt that I had
to some-<br>
how make sure that the way I defined Yiddishkeit and the way I
defined<br>
my commitments given my own inclinations would be perfectly aligned.<br>
I'm now convinced that that commitment to consistency was utter-<br>
ly wrong-headed and is the key to all that is wrong with
institutional<br>
Yiddishkeit. I shouldn't have been defining either Yiddishkeit or my<br>
commitments at al. To do so is to reduce Yiddishkeit to ideology
which<br>
is exactly what it is not.<br><br>
See the above UL for more. YL<br>
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