With all the Chagims coming up in few days, as of late I have been feeling the Jew in me quite strongly. As I am no longer frum, I observe Chagims in a manner that is different from before. With that said, whatever Jewish thing I choose to do, it is always done the frum way. And if I choose not to do something, I neither use a substitute from other streams of Judaism, nor do I say that observing the ritual is outdated. It is merely that I no longer observe it.
Without going deeply into arguing for or against the validity of various Jewish streams, at the end of the day, on a very deeply personal level, I feel that adherence to hallacha in accordance of Orthodox ways is one of the most important reasons why Judaism on a whole is vital and present in our day and time. And so when I pray I do Orthodox way. To pray otherwise doesn’t quite makes sense to me…
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