Re: Fw: Kol Isha

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

I just read something interesting that perhaps someone more knowledgeable can 
comment on, from the Jewish Heritage Online Mag.  The quote is below, which 
suggests that really neither women nor men should be allowed to sing.  Isn't it 
odd then, that prohibition against women singing remained whereas men are 
allowed to sing.  
Sincerely,
Helen
http://www.jhom.com/topics/voice/kol_isha.htm
For the strict interpreters of the laws forbidding music, neither private, 
recreational activity nor public entertainment were acceptable outlets for 
singing. This applied to men as well as women. In Kaftor ve-Perach, a book 
written in the early thirteenth century, the author warned against singing: 
"even to honor their work" because of the destruction of the Temple.[3] Raba is 
quoted as saying "a song in the house brings destruction,"[4] and Rabbi Isaac 
Alfasi quotes Rav, the great rabbi of the Talmud who demanded "if you hear a 
song, uproot it."[5]
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