Q&A: Haredim
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Haredim
Question
I saw that you said Haredim is not a religious outlook but a social outlook. I’d appreciate some clarification, because apparently that isn’t correct, since it is an outlook in the way one views religion, and it has very weighty implications for life. But at root it is a way of understanding what an Orthodox Jew is, and according to this view, if you are apparently Orthodox but without its positions, then in any case you are not Orthodox.
Answer
There’s no point in arguing about this. It’s a matter of definition. Regarding the definition of Haredim, I wrote several columns about it, and you can look there. See, for example, column 693.