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Basically, there’s a Modern Orthodox ideal, and a Modern Orthodox reality. I’m not going to discuss the reality.
Modern Orthodoxy is (supposed to be)
Religious zionism,
Belief in the importance of secular education,
It’s important that women should learn Torah on a level at least equal to that of their secular education.
For some reason, people think that if you’re Modern Orthodox, you’re allowed to:
see certain types of arayos
daven once a day/week (men)
wear pants (women)
get drunk during kerias hatorah (hopefully only men, unless there’s a new problem i don’t know about)
schmooze with members of the other gender (not married to)
Klal yisroel should be zoche that yidden who are not yet yir’ei shomayim should become yir’ei shomayim, and those who are already yir’ei shomayim should stay yir’ei shomayim, and that all jews, chareidi, modern orthodox, mizrachi, chardal, chassidish, yeshivish, brisk, sephardi, ashkenazi, frum, and not yet frum, should all get along, and there should be shalom al yisroel, and in that zechus, moshiach should reddem us bimeheira b’yameinu. amen.
