I let this sit for a little while to think about it, and I realize that you're arguing with someone else using me as a proxy. I never gatekept anything, I never

I let this sit for a little while to think about it, and I realize that you're arguing with someone else using me as a proxy. I never gatekept anything, I never said anything about 'not jewish enough', this is all you projecting something on to my arguments because you don't like that someone else might know more than you about it because its more important in their lives. and I say that as a non-practicing anything. You're making a lot of assertions I never made, making claims that are totally bunk but not worth the time to engage in, and overall just accusing me of 'gatekeeping' because I acknowledge the reality that people who think shabbat is important know the most about shabbat. You started this engagement looking to cast your unhappiness with someone else on to me, and this post is more of that. Differing levels of specialization and knowledge exist, and acknowledging that isn't gatekeeping - it's basic reality. You can deny it if you like - no skin off my nose. But it means I don't really care what you have to say - your knowledge of shabbat doesn't matter and you're not a specialist, and your claims that because you have some friends who studied for a while (as if that makes them equal to people who study it for their whole lives) makes this knowledge equal is also bunk. Your points about people asking their rabbis is again, not interesting, because the people asking their rabbis questions are generally about practical issues of shabbat or kashrut, not about studying the laws and knowing the background. You're using my as some kind of target for your existing frustration with orthodox-reform problems, and I'm not either and don't care about your personal hangups. Orthodox jews tend to know significantly more about jewish law. Get over it.