Re: kol isha--redux!

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: kol isha--redux!


> I'm pleased to report that the masterly essay by Rabbi Saul Berman (of
Edah
> and Stern College) on kol isha--which puts that halacha (or that halachic
> rubric) in proper perspective, I think, and to which I've previously
> alluded--is now available on the web, through Edah's website.
>
> So far as I can tell, you need to first go to:
>
> www.edah.org/docs
>
> and then select:  kolisha.pdf
>
> (It's a reprint of his article exactly as it appeared in a book.)
>
> I can't more enthusiastically recommend this reading, from a (liberal, I
> suppose one would call it, and certainly scholarly) halachic perspective,
on
> an issue that's so vexing to many today.
>
> --Robert Cohen

It is interesting, but it doesn't change my view.  It only confirms that
this prohibition is basically like the prohibitions against women in parts
of the Muslim world.  There is a fear that some men have of the power that
women can have on them, so they punish the women instead of controlling
themselves.

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