Re: libidinous swamps

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

My wife and I decided that the Kol Isha thing is intimately related (no pun 
intended) to the shaitel thing and the yichud thing- and I'll bet if (you're 
living in the 'modern' world enough so that) the last 2 don't bother you, then 
neither does the first. OTOH, I'll bet all three of these these things bother 
my Rabbi.
                                    EK


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TROMBAEDU (at) aol(dot)com 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:28 PM
  Subject: Re: libidinous swamps


  In a message dated 2/20/01 7:09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, judithc (at) 
yorku(dot)ca 
  writes: 



    Actually, I don't think that's quite what Shirona was saying. In any 
    case, I still think that if a man feels feeble enough that any woman's 
    voice is likely to arouse such uncontrollable lust, he should simply 
    remove himself from the situation - HIS problem, after all. SHE should 
    simply keep singing! 
    Or maybe we should ALL stop talking and simply keep singing.....:) 



  You have come to one of the important details a number of people are 
  forgetting. I hope to elaborate more on this. shirona, among others, is 
  waiting for a reply from me on my "personal take," and I don't want to unduly 
  delay, (full day with the kids--Lower East Side, Gus's, Gertels, Kadouri, 
  etc. if you do not know about these cultural landmarks, I will fill in 
  another time) but briefly, one of the big problems in how people deal with 
  the existence of this halacha is that it is a restriction on the man, not the 
  woman. How the sociology interfered is a question I may not b qualified to 
  answer, but the prohibition is most certainly on the man. what it really 
  boils down to is that if there are things that will distract him from 
  performing certain Mitzvot, he must remove himself from the situation. 

  Jordan