Showing posts with label halacha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halacha. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

Halachic Cowardice

So I'm wearing jeans right now.

They are tight, skinny, hot jeans.

What a slut.

The only thing is that I'm at home alone. Nobody can see me. Just like nobody has seen me in jeans for at least 4 years now.

That's because I'm a skirt wearer. That special breed of orthodox girl who bent over for patriarchy and wears a tube of fabric around her legs to remind the world that she's not a man.

Look, I know that I can wear pants. I know that there's no source requiring me to wear skirts. I could even wear my ass-tight jeans and it wouldn't be a problem b/c none of the sources even talk about tightness of clothing. All they talk about it skin that needs to be covered. Not how it needs to be covered.

But alas, I am a halachic coward. Orthodox girls wear skirts and so I wear skirts. I wouldn't want to rock to boat.

Sadly this applies in other areas as well.

I learnt how to laiyn, but I never have in public.

I reckon I'd make an ok Rabbi, but I have no intention of going for smicha.

I only eat cheese that's on the kosher list.

I won't eat in a vegan restaurant without a hechsher.

Basically I'm a total wimp and coward. Even though I know that all these things are ok halachically I still don't do them.

What a wuss.