Q&A: For the Rabbi
For the Rabbi
Question
Sorry for the English. Thank you very much for your website!
I would like to know whether the Rabbi has such a long beard for religious reasons?
Is it possible to create an app from this website?
Answer
My beard originally came about for religious reasons, but nowadays it is mainly inertia. There is of course no religious obligation to grow a beard. Perhaps there is some value in avoiding doubts regarding shaving.
I assume it is possible to create an app, but I don’t have anyone to do it.
Discussion on Answer
In the book Authority That Is Slavery, Part Two
(a guidebook for rabbis on how to lord it over their flock, which received endorsements from prominent rabbis)
it says that men’s mikvehs should be closed
because of the many sins that come out of there.
No.
Michi, was wearing your tzitzit out also originally for religious reasons, but nowadays it’s inertia?
Michi, is your answer “No” supposed to apply to the tzitzit?
This discussion is pointless. For now I’m not closing it, but that’s where it’s headed. When you write my biography, come interview me and I’ll consider whether to answer you.
The biography is already written, it just needs the finishing touches.
In that same context, has the Rabbi ever seen any value in immersing in a mikveh (religious, psychological)?