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Xazy, can I just thank you for coming in and giving us the frum [traditional, Orthodox] answer. I really appreciate that. I am trying to do my best to separate, in my answers, what is and is not traditional and/or Orthodox, but I am sure by Orthodox standards I am missing things, or not making a clear enough distinction. I was raised frum, but am now liberal, and the transition involved some negative feelings on my part with how I perceive things being done in the Orthodox world, and I am sure that sometimes colors my vision.
I may not always agree with the Orthodox viewpoints, but I respect where they come from, and I would hate to think this thread wasn't reflective of the totality of Jewish experience we have here.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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