Ask the Fundamentalist

Dov Bear exposes the absurdity of Dark Light’s Ask the Rabbi column on payos care and hair treatment for the newly fahfrumt, chassidic style.

Payos hair care, okay? I don’t want to hear any more rubbish about how Dark Light is of “Lithuanianâ€? persuasion, not even a fundamentalist Litvish approach. Advising baal teshuvahs on how to manage long payos instead of discouraging such chassidic expressions of identity is absolutely outside the most expansive definition of a “Litvishe derech” possible.

Dov Bear asks, “What’s worse? That someone thought to trouble a Rabbi with a fashion question, or that the Rabbi saw fit to put his answer online?â€?

The latter, Dov Bear. The latter.

As I wrote on Dov Bear’s post, Ohr Somayach has never met an aspect of quiescent Jewish fundamentalism that it didn’t like.

Earlier: Dark Light and Classical Music