Re: Three Weeks

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>Who among us really will change our behavior, even in something so simple
>as the 
>playing of music? Will anyone on this list NOT play during the Three Weeks?
>Or will 
>NOT play for the Jewish community during that time -- out of PRINCIPLE?

Alex, so far, you are the only person on this list who feels
that this is a time when one should not play. Other participants,
either do not feel this to be a correct determination of 
Orthodox Halacha, or do not consider Halacha a relevant
part of their lives. (I count myself in this latter group.)

There is no challenge here (except to yourself, and I look
forward to hearing what you are doing), so there is no reason
I can think of why people would be modifying their behavior
in this instance. 

I do wonder, however, whether there are specific gigs that
Jewish musicians would not, in general, take. There are 
obvious ones--I think even the least religious among us would
be unable to play a Yom Kippur bar mitzvah (despite the 
wonderfully oxymoronic conception of such of thing), but
what are the limits that being a Jewish musician plays
on where or when one accepts gigs.

ari