Reply To: Modern Music…..prohibited?

I have a few minutes to comment on “gaon atzum”. In truth, you miss the point totally. You are talking about gedolei olam and all the greatest Yidden in our history. Clearly, every person, and certainly every Godol, throughout the centuries was entitles to pile upon hIMSELF chumroh upon chumroh.NO one ever denied this.If you feel that you should not go to a concert, tovo olecho brocho. If you want to filter your water, ditto. This is fine. We are talking here about the KLAL. As you are a “gaon atzum’ you surely konw that the chachomim never wanted to make a “gezeiro she-ein hazibbur jochol la-amod bo”. A lot of the stuff going on now is in this ‘geder”. Do you honestly think that banning CD’s of Jewish songs will mean anything for the Klal?Pray tell me, what do you want the Klal to do on a Motzei Shabbos? Is it better if they go the movies or, G-d forbid,worse? Additionally, if there is separate seating, what is wrong with that? By banning ALL concerts, you will surely cause people to go to any concert and ignore the word of Chachomim. There is a saying that a Possek needs a “fifth shulchan aruch”. I suggest that, in this case, this was absent.

Lastly, according to you Bais Hillel should just pack up and go home as there is no room for “Koach de-heteira odif”