[HANASHIR:8312] Re: HANASHIR digest 1151

[LSOLKOWITZ <LSOLKOWITZ...>]

In a message dated 2/21/01 3:00:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org writes:


> Can we all agree that we have a serious problem here?  Can we all =
> agree that we need  healing? =20
> 
>   We need to get to the root of this "pathology".  

Ok, my turn to be offended. Being one of the few (if not only) women on this 
list who is a musician, a SONGLEADER, and an observer of Kol Isha,  I am 
absolutely OFFENDED by my practice being called a "pathology".  No one on 
this list has dissed those of you who do not choose to accept this halacha.

  I believe that I have an as much a right to accept this halacha as you have 
to reject it.  I think the problem lies in the anger aimed at those who 
maintain a practice that you don't agree with.

If I may say so, it is rather egotistical to become angry at a group of men 
because they won't listen to you sing.  Do you get angry at all the folks who 
don't show up at services that you lead?  Or do you feel just a bit sad 
because they "missed a good one"?

The pathology is not in the halacha, it is in the anger.

laura



Laura Solkowitz, RN
(919) 846-7081
lsolkowitz (at) aol(dot)com