Re: Khilul HaShem

[Richard Green <rmarkgreen...>]

I also think that it depends on whether or not the symbols and names
will be construed sacriligiously.


>From: "Eliezer Kaplan" <zelwel (at) earthlink(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Khilul HaShem
>Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 19:52:16 -0600
>
>You're getting into a hazy area here between religious iconography and
>religious art.
>
>Of course, I'm not a rabbi, but I would guess that the problem is not so
>much commercial use as enabling a chance that the 'art' which contains
>shamos (Divine names) will end up being displayed in an inappropriate 
>place,
>or otherwise treated with disrespect.
>
>Personally, I have a problem with such cover art because when I get an 
>album
>with that sort of thing on it, I feel that I can never get rid of it by
>trading it in as used. But maybe I'm just being obsessive-compulsive.
>
>In 25 words or less- the problem is not the iconography, but what might
>happen to the iconography.
>
>                                     Eliezer Kaplan
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kame'a Media" <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:44 PM
>Subject: Khilul HaShem
>
>
> > To Jordan, Elliot and all other
> > Learned Listniks:
> >
> > Would you agree that
> > it is a form of =Khilul HaShem=
> > to employ kabalistic Tree of Life
> > symbolism containing the Tetragrammaton
> > and other Divine Names and Attributes
> > for commercial purposes,
> > i.e. --a CD cover?
> >
> > I  would appreciate your thoughts.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Wolf
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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