a lot of the rules in the Bible are impossible, illegal, or embarassing to follow nowadays; like wearing tassels, tying your money to yourself, stoning adulterers, not eating fruit from a tree less than 5 years old, and not touching anything that a menstruating woman has touched;
I take it, the author doesn’t know many Orthodox Jews..?
Those aren’t actually how orthodox Jews interpret the rules, or apply them nowadays. Tassels are only on very specific articles of clothing, which are hidden under people’s shirts, I’m not even sure what “tying money to yourself” is about, adulterers are only stoned if the temple stands and only under nearly-impossible to satisfy conditions, trees less than 5 years old are only considered a biblical problem in Israel, and if you’re unsure, the fruit is allowed in the rest of the world, and the ritual purity laws don’t apply in general because everyone is assumed to be contaminated anyways.
I take it, the author doesn’t know many Orthodox Jews..?
Those aren’t actually how orthodox Jews interpret the rules, or apply them nowadays. Tassels are only on very specific articles of clothing, which are hidden under people’s shirts, I’m not even sure what “tying money to yourself” is about, adulterers are only stoned if the temple stands and only under nearly-impossible to satisfy conditions, trees less than 5 years old are only considered a biblical problem in Israel, and if you’re unsure, the fruit is allowed in the rest of the world, and the ritual purity laws don’t apply in general because everyone is assumed to be contaminated anyways.