notice of non-response

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

hi, I already composed and erased a series of angry answers to Robert's
post, but on second (eleventh) thought decided to send them off-list
because at this point it answering on list would seem to go beyond the
list's purview - again. Just for the record, the two points I'm
specifically responding (reacting) to are:

> 
> 
> Don't judge another without putting yourself in their place.
> 
> -I think it's gratuitously 
> disrespectful to refer to men's, or rabbis', observing what they believe are 
> the restrictions mandated by kol isha because they doubt their "internal 
> strength or moral fibre" or their ability to withstand "succumbing to base 
> impulses."  Neither has anything to do with why most Orthodox men who 
> observe the kol isha restrictions as they understand them, observe them.  
> They observe them, pure and simple, because they feel obligated to--in 
> accordance with a structure of obligations which governs their entire 
> life-style.

Judith

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