Reading

Posted: Sat, Jun 23 2007, 10:29 pm Post subject: Reading

I was randomly checking frum profiles on hi5.

Read on a chassidishe girl's profile:

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48152

Yes, many DO love reading but not everyone.

Posted: Sat, Jun 23 2007, 11:12 pm Post subject: re: Reading

Ok, some just like it.
But the quote above goes much stronger than "it's not really my fav activity, anyway I enjoyed reading [inserts a few titles]". It's a BIG problem and very scary that it has reached the frummest circles. Reading is (was? Sad

) extremely strongly emphasized in Jewish chinuch, maybe even more in frum one. Decades ago it was also the case by the non jews. Now, they are having huge difficulties about it, I witnessed it first hand when I was in middle n high school. But that takes the cake. Even the non reading non Jews I know dont express themselves like that, but they are older than this girl.

Hence my initial questions.

Diamond Member Joined: Feb 20 2007 Posts: 4464

definitely all thoes things can help but also it's just the way a person is. I'm also Shocked

that somebody could say that about reading. I love reading though. I was reading from a very early age and I'm just a voracious reader.