Re: yemenite instruments

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

So that means percussion is not an instrument (halachically- for the
Yemenites)?


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> The article I have mentions the destruction of the temple as the religious
> reason for not allowing instrumental music and quotes several Yemenite
Jews
> who made this statement.  However it also says that even Muslims were not
> permitted to play musical instruments unless they were part of the Inman's
> military band.  People still played music secretly.  I have scanned the
> article into pdf format if anyone wants to read it.
> Helen
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> In a message dated 5/14/2003 7:26:14 AM Central Daylight Time,
> winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:
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>  > Someone was asking whether the use of percussion only by Yemenite Jews
> was
>  > due to political persecution or for religious reasons.
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> The Yemenites with whom I lived for a while in Israel told me that it was
> because Jews were not allowed to play musical instruments.  I never heard
a
> religious reason.
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