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The ‘Stop Here, Think’ Community

Question

Hello,
Why did you leave the above forum?
Do you know which population group is dominant there? (Lithuanian Haredim, Hasidim, etc.? Did they acquire formal secular education or are they autodidacts?)
Thank you,
Have a peaceful Sabbath

Answer

I left because I felt I had exhausted it. I don’t know which population is dominant there, certainly not today. I haven’t been there for many years. But there were all types there.

Discussion on Answer

Akagekga (2021-07-16)

In the post about “Prisoners of Reason,” you wrote about a young Haredi man from Meah Shearim whom you met through Stop Here, Think, and afterward you sent him to study mathematics. You spoke very highly of him.
Is that Dr. Yoel Grohman?

Michi (2021-07-16)

I can’t reveal names without the permission of the people involved.

Aharon (2021-07-18)

I read the article on “Prisoners of Reason.”
A fascinating article.
The part where you noted that you met with “strangers” in a house in Bnei Brak, including all the illustrations, would do justice to a climax scene in a drama film. (Maybe someone should actually consider making a movie about this idea, with the blind meeting scene as its climax.)

By the way, in this article (https://m.ynet.co.il/Articles/4005139) published in 2010, someone describes the meetings in almost exactly the same way you described them. Except that in his case the meetings were in Jerusalem (and according to what’s written, he “only recently” discovered that there were also meetings in Bnei Brak).

I was curious who the people there with you were, their real names and their screen names on the forum.
I found a blog somewhere that exposed many names. (I was surprised to discover that the journalist “Arel Segal” was a member of the forum, not under any veil of secrecy.)

Your article was apparently published in 2008, 13 years ago.
I have a few questions about it, because the marks of time have not passed it by.

On the blog that exposed the full names, you can identify two Reform female rabbis and other candidates who fit your description (including the name mentioned here, which is attributed there to “Peeping and Getting Hurt”).
Assuming the names attributed to the screen names are really correct, how do you think the person who published that discovered it? After all, even at the closed meetings people use their screen names! (Or alternatively, since you can’t address it without permission, can a person discover that at all?)

Have there been meetings in the last 10 years with people connected to the “holy city”? Are you in touch with some of them today?

Michi (2021-07-18)

I don’t see any value in these discussions. This is mere voyeurism.
By the way, the Arel Segal who appears there is not the journalist.

Avi Rose (2023-02-26)

What does a Haredi person nowadays do if he needs a place like Stop Here, Think?

Michi (2023-02-26)

He goes onto Stop Here, Think or another similar site (I’m not familiar with any), or creates one.

Avi Rose (2023-03-05)

Thanks to the Rabbi for the answer.
But Stop Here, Think has been asleep for quite a few years. Does the Rabbi know Haredi people like that who are searching for their way and finding some kind of group or something for themselves?

Michi (2023-03-05)

No

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