Monday, July 9, 2007

Guide to Labeling Orthodox Jews


FFB: (Frum From Birth)

FFBWL: Frum From Birth With Lapses- "My yeshiva had the best weed..."

FFBOOH: Frum From Birth Out Of Habit

BT: Ba'al Teshuva

IBT: Integrated Ba'al Teshuva- "You're a Ba'al Teshuva?!"

NIBT: Non-Integrated Ba'al Teshuva- Q: "Can I help you find the pages during the service?" A: "I'm okay, thanks."

BTNOOH: Ba'al Teshuva Now Out Of Habit

Ger/Giores


-Dixie Yid (card-carrying Underconstructionist)

5 comments:

P L said...

I think you might want to add:

FFBFATtjDWEED - K?
Frum from birth but awakened and found True Torah Judaism and not the "do what everyone else does" kind.

Nice post!

DixieYid (يهودي جنوبي) said...

Now I like that one! It's better thank FFBWL!

-Dixie Yid

Neil Harris said...

Don't forget FFT-Frum From Teshuva (I first heard this from R Moshe Shur)

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AS said...

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