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"if you are marked – the girls won’t be accepted into the seminaries, you won’t receive matchmaking offers, they won’t let you continue teaching classes. You’re finished"

It's a shame to live in such fear. We were supposedly freed from slavery in Egypt to serve only God and not man, but it seems like so many people just make themselves slaves to social norms instead.

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The far more important part of this article is the exposure of Chareidi society and culture as an empty barrel. This is very relevant to the discussion many on substack or having. See https://open.substack.com/pub/daastorah/p/a-sad-post-from-lakewood?r=33pit&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true and

https://open.substack.com/pub/ishyehudi/p/my-opinion-on-the-orthopraxy-conversation?r=33pit&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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