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[Soulrebel]

I feel like I don't know what kind of Jew I am- I don't fit into any category neatly- and it's making me feel lonely...then I wonder if I even HAVE any thoughts on key issues...then I wonder what counts as a key issue at all. What questions would you ask to determine this?

[Rabbi Shapiro]

I feel like I don't know what kind of Jew I am

What different kinds of Jews are there?

[Soulrebel]

I don't really know, because all of the old categories- yeshivish, chasidish, MO, etc- have kind of all smushed together and become irrelevant as far as I have observed. I just mean that when people ask how frum I am, I have no idea what to say, and I'd like to have a serious answer.

[Morgenstern]

Just say you're "just Jewish."

Just know this causes people who are trapped in box thinking (IE grand majority of Jews) to not like you.

[Rabbi Shapiro]

I don't really know, because all of the old categories- yeshivish, chasidish, MO, etc- have kind of all smushed together and become irrelevant as far as I have observed. I just mean that when people ask how frum I am, I have no idea what to say, and I'd like to have a serious answer.

 

OK, put it this way: If these categories would not be, as you put it, shmushed together, in what way would you be like each of the different categories?