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Baruch Stereotypes

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Baruch, fell into the many stereotypes of a Haredim man, such as having large family of 8, keeping kosher and shabbat, wearing a suit and kippah, having a large beard, being a lawyer, and coming from many generations of Haredim. He also had many of the general values that religious Jewish people have, such as keeping kashrut and the holidays, knowing the Torah, and the general lifestyle. He even stated that as much as he knows a lot of Jewish people do not keep shabbat it hurts him a bit.

He also fell into the stereotypes are marrying and having children young. He was married around 20, and his mother was even married and had him before the age of 20. As well as his oldest daughter is 20 and married. An aspect of cultural diversity is how people have arranged marriages, and parents look for the stereotype of a good Jewish boy or girl for their child. Where here the most liberal people have their children 's meet up to 10 times before engagement. Where the process is the find out all the information about the other person for offer, which is extremely unfair that a person does not have full control over who they want to marry, and can not date. The prejudice here is that he believes …show more content…

Baruch is very well traveled and has knowledge about the world, which you would not expect from a religious person, most people would think majority are more close minded. He showed cultural diversity and broke the stereotypes of being a learned and cultured man, both him and his wife are professionals, he is an educator and runs an all girls school.

He broke all contacts towards thinking that all religious people are judgmental towards everyone unlike them, as well as they are more open to women 's roles and rights than most people think, such as that his wife runs a company, and is not subjugated.

Without the constructs of religiosity as interpreted by orthodoxy, someone can still become a modern individual that can maintain religious doctrine as well as live in a worldly

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