Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Ari Davidow" <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Kol Isha becomes a reality


> At 10:24 AM 3/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I do hope Shirona takes these people to small claims court. If they had
any
> >>sense of justice or fairness--or courage--, they would have asked the
> >>aggrieved brother-in-law to stay home.
> >>
> >>Eliott Kahn
> >***********************************
> >since this was a simcha for the family, i do not think it would have been
> >appropriate to ask the man to stay home.  It would have been much better
to
> >have taken his sensabilities into account BEFORE making the arrangements.
> >if this was then an oversight, it would have been menschlishkiet, to tell
> >her that they would not be able to have her perform, pay her for her
> >commitment and move on.
>
> But by taking the family to small claims court, Shirona is helping
> establish a precedent that current interpretations of halakha that
> cause a family to renege on a contract must be treated as reneging
> on a contract--this may help in the process of rethinking interpretations
> that lead to "Kol Isha". When something is understood to have
> ramifications to the financial well-being of both the performer
> and the contract-breaker, it has a different meaning than some
> abstract sense that a woman's voice singing leads one astray.
>
> ari
I'm (a little) surprised that nothing has been said about the Torah's
injunction against sending a workman home without his pay.


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