Reply To: “Eretz” Yisroel = Frummer?

I’m trying to shed light on lots of Meshugas. BH the yiddishkeit I grew up with was natural, healthy and excellent. Not looking to “seem frum(mer)”.

There are lots of what I call “auxillary” things that religious people pick up which are not critical to yiddishkeit. For example, how do you explain a BT guy who called it Israel his whole life suddenly calling it Eretz Yisroel? In other words, what social pressures are causing him to doubt his previous appellation of the country? That’s what I’m trying to get at. Same thing with Velvet = Frummer post.