Re: kol isha and Chabad

[Matt Jaffey <mjaffey2...>]

I'm curious about something. There is a Lubavich rabbi who comes to our
small community once every couple of years. At the synagogue, he teaches
songs to a mixed audience of men and women. Everyone participates. So he
must be breaking rules that he believes in in order to perform this
"outreach" function. Am I right?

Matt

At 03:01 PM 3/9/2000 PST, you wrote:
>This is quite thoughtfully put, and I think I agree w/ the gist of it, but 
>Chabad hardly deserves the credit they're given here.  They *do* do 
>outreach, obviously, to Jews not in their fold--and, indeed, do deserve 
>credit for rendering many Jewish services to Jews not in their fold--but I 
>would argue that they meet people strictly on their--Lubavich 
>Orthodox--terms, *not* on "their" (others') terms.  Keep in mind that Shlomo 
>Carlebach, z"l, *left* Chabad because he could not get a heter (permission) 
>to sing before mixed audiences (i.e., of men and women)--and that was a 
>question of a (Orthodox) *man* singing!  Just try getting Chabad, anywhere, 
>to sponsor a concert involving Jewish women singing ... -- Robert


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