tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021424.post1881181974473416532..comments2024-01-17T09:35:23.115+00:00Comments on Bloghead: Orthodox eating disordersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021424.post-76700527474613342242010-12-23T04:00:46.661+00:002010-12-23T04:00:46.661+00:00Holiness is commanded in our holy torah. HaShem sa...Holiness is commanded in our holy torah. HaShem said, "Be holy, as I the L-RD your G-d am holy." What does starving oneself to "gain a spouse" have to do with holiness? It has everything to do with worldliness and secularism. As Jews, we are to be a light unto the nations and show them the way to holiness and truth. This is done when we keep the Torah in its pure holy form of its written commandments. Vanity is not a part of the holy torah. It is not wrong to look pretty, exercise and eat right to gain a spouse, or to do this just to feel good about oneself. But encouraging one's child to keep themselves very thin so they can gain a great spouse (by whatever means) is unkosher and certainly ungodly. In the Torah we are commanded to love one another, to honor our parents and to help others, etc. There are many commandments regarding those issues. Forcing someone verbally or nonverbally or by whatever means to look a certain way so they can gain a spouse has nothing to do with the laws of the Great G-d of our ancestors.Barriehttp://ancientjudaism.orgnoreply@blogger.com