Re: kol isha--redux!

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

I found the article more than a little frustrating because unless I missed 
it, there was no time frame given or the various Gedolim (did I get that 
right?) quoted. So it's very hard to track who was saying what when, and 
what the practice was when and how it evolved...

But I appreciated Robert bringing it to our attention.

Joel

At 09:15 AM 1/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>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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