Re: Kol Isha: Rikudat Isha

[wiener <wiener...>]

If that was my post (and it was some time ago so I don't quite
remember if it was and, if so, what my state of mind was at the time),
I suppose that I was commenting on the implication that Miriam and the
women danced but did not sing at the Reed Sea.  If so, I assumed that
music was probably provided too, and by men.  If this is to serve as
the model of how to pray in the synagogue, that women should be seen
(dancing), but not heard, why don't we see women dancing in Orthodox
congregations?  In fact, in the most "traditional" Orthodox synagogues
women were not seen (by the men) at all.

Bob

(And I'm not even addressing the question, which we must have
addressed sometime, of the effect of Kol Ish on the prayerful state of
women.)


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Kol Isha: Rikudat Isha


>Why shouldn't/wouldn't they?
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>--Robert Cohen
>
>
>
>>Would adherents of this interpretation [whether or not I am
one--rlcd]
>>encourage women to dance in
>>shul to the accompaniment of a male shaliach tsibur?
>>(A "rhetorical" question.)
>>
>>Bob
>
>
>>I have to correct you, friend.
>>Miriam and the women "dance" at the Reed Sea. In fact, according to
>>some
>>of the commentaries we read, this distinction is the reason that the
>>rabbis argued in favor of the idea of Kol Ishah in the first place.)
>>
>>George Robinson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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