Reply To: Modern Music…..prohibited?

postsemgirl…It is not my purpose to engage in a long drawn out debate on your words or mine..BUT (there is always a BUT) you say that the minhagim of the gemoro “was in the times of old”

HUH??? If I (or any other commentator on this website) would say these words in preaching a KULLOH- you and other people would jump down our throats!!!! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT,etc,etc… A relevant example : a woman covering her hair. If I would say that this is only in “old times’ but today, we live in a different world, women don’t that anymore..etc… MY HEAD WOULD SPIN FROM THE ATTACKS ON MY “APIKORSUS” !!!

Why is it always :”we must do it the old way” when it comes to chumros but NEVER when it comes to kullohs??? (actually, you are wrong in that too, but this is for another day).

Do you think that boys and girls, men and women had different “yezers” in those days?? PREPOSTEROUS!!! The whole concept of mechitza comes from that!

SO, when I show you an “offene gemoro” (explicit gemoro) that ADVOCATES mixing of the sexes for a specific purpose, why is THAT view suddenly “old’ and ‘archaic”?

As said, this is what disappoints so many Yidden today- the total lack of symmetry when it comes to halachic decisions. Any new chumro? FANTASTIC !! How about a kulloh?? “OSSUR’OSSUR”.

this is not how the the Torah and halacha should be interpreted.