Too frum for school

I am glad I missed the world premiere

I had noticed recently that I had been becoming 'frumer'. This is strange since I never become 'frumer'. I am centrist sliding left. I started to analyse my life, and find out what was the cause of my 'frumness'. Initially, I thought it was my study of the law of torts, every time I study I think back to my fond memories of learning Bava Basra. 

It was not that.

Then I thought I was eating too many products covered by Melbourne Kosher or Kosher Australia, they keep changing their name...very elusive, but I will get them someday. 

That was not it either. 

Last week, I had heard a rumor that Aish HaTorah had bought the radio station 'Triple J', 'Jewish, Jews and Judaica'. They had been disseminating their religious dogma subversively. Subconsciously I was becoming more close-minded. I started wearing more black (regardless of the fact they were skinny jeans) and covering my head with a hat during davening and brachos. It felt like I was going through puberty again...new things were happening...I felt butterflies in my stomach and awkwardness around the opposite sex. I was caught saying tehillim in my bedroom...what an embarrassing moment. It is worse than being caught...you know...playing...it's not loshon noki, I am still going through my frum stage, because one's soul is being poured out all over the table not just one's phallus. 

Don't be too frum, Aish HaTorah style. Not cool. 

skinnies are banned. am i really breaking another halacha?

In the shidduch world jeans have always been considered unacceptable, however now for the first time Modern Orthodox rabbis have stated that skinny jeans are now assur for they go against the laws of tzniut.

According to Rav Tzion Amichai, skinny jeans are so tight subsequently causing girls to know the religion of the boys which they are looking at. In response to this Rabbi Elad Speiro forcefully stated that skinny jeans are assur but not because of girls noticing which religion the boy belongs to but rather due to the hashkafa behind the jeans.

Rabbi Elad Speiro furthers his argument by stating that “skinny jeans represents an anti-establishment attitude…a boy who wears skinny jeans would rather listen to indie-goyishe music than learn Torah…this must be stopped.”

Unfortunately, you will not be able to find skinny jeans with a hechsher on them anymore. The frummer society becomes the more shapeless our clothes become.

Even though Rabbi Elad Speiro, frowns on skinny jeans I would like to write that I wore skinny jeans in Yeshivat Har Etzion for a number of months without a single comment from the rabbanim. Unlike all the other talmidim at Gush I will not pretend that I was close to Rav Aaron Lichtenstein but I am sure he saw me and my jeans in the corridors of Gush.