obsessed with intelligence

 We are so smart. You are so smart. Smart, smart. Always about being smart. It's too much.

00:35

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxWhAYyQAB6NBEpafN6Na-frn0rDqBE_xB?si=kzbWicp2PjIQuUOM

sang for their dying teacher

 

There goes those goyim again. 

it's the men

 A man will sacrifice his happiness for his family. A woman will sacrifice her family for her happiness.

this is smart

 

Instead of making you feel that you messed up, they put the blame on themselves and show you a photo of a nice dog. 

Sort of the opposite of the yeshiva world. 

Finally a rabbi with a humble and gentle speaking manner.

 https://www.torahanytime.com/lectures/14695

Two Approaches to Kiruv; Avraham's and Yitzchak's

MW

R' Moshe Wolfson ZTL

just sent to me

 This just occurred to me that the religious society's approach to a BT (in our days) was that a BT is attempting to do tshuvah not with God but with the frum society, as if they themselves "are" God and that the BT's are coming before them, to be judged as to whether their intentions are true. And that positioning gives the uneducated within that society (often these are easily found in yeshivot, as much or more, than in general frum society) the impetus to engage also in "hazing." As in, the BT must prove himself, constantly prove himself, in order to be normalized even more so than a convert for whom the Torah commands one to love. The Jew (whose family line who at one point departed from the rabbinic-controlled societal forms & approaches of Europe (since the 1800's) must be tested/tried. “If we are going to let them back into the religious society, we have to cleanse them...and keep reminding them of their status...and find ways to denigrate their status". 

I point to the irony & ridiculous approach to BT Kohanim...which challenges the frum community at all levels.

Oh those goyim, they are awful