Thursday, April 30, 2009

Better Know The Hedyot

DH (the blogger, not the hypothesis) has another interview with a kofer up on his site, and again we have a totally normal guy, from a totally normal background, who goes OTD for all the right reasons. But you don't need to read the whole long boring megilah, I have the highlites right here:

DH: Describe for me your background.
DH: Well I grew up totally normal MO, until suddenly my parents went crazy Chareidi on me.
DH: In what way were they crazy chareidi?
DH: Well my mom wouldn't even me let me see her without her tichel on.
DH: Hmm. The crazy part I see. So what made you go off the derech?
DH: Err, what part of 'I grew up totally normal MO, until suddenly my parents went crazy Chareidi on me' did you not understand?
DH: But did something trigger it?
DH: Yes. I met a frum MO guy and I realized MO people could be frum too!
DH: I see. And what was the first halachah you broke?
DH: Hmm. Eating Rabbanut Hechsherim?
DH: So eating Rabbanut made you go OTD?!
DH: No, silly! It was the halachos of taharas hamishpachah. They were just too difficult.
DH: Err, aren't you single?
DH: What? You mean Taharas Hamishpachah doesn't apply to singles? Mom!!!!

Tune in next week, when DH interviews someone who went from living in Teaneck and attending Ramaz to moving to Kiryas Joel and learning Chassidus all day, because his parents told him that was the one true derech, and then one day he bumped into an old friend from Teaneck who told him that RWMO was actually the one true derech, and the cognitive dissonance was so great that he instantly converted to Roman Catholocism, became a lesbian, and worst of all, now eats OU-D.

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