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  • #618100
    absan
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    I often see young adults or older girls shamusing ,laughing etc. right in middle the street when the men go and come from shul in the late evening. Wouldn”t it be appropiate if they would at least move to the side or against the wall and lower their tone of voice? Or am I just over doing???

    #1164984
    Sparkly
    Member

    absan – no ive gotten many complaints about these kinds of girls.

    #1164985
    Joseph
    Participant

    absan, you’re absolutely correct.

    #1164986
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Absan, you are absolutely right, but I don’t think that they realize what it looks like. Most of the time, it is hard for people to see how they look to others. People get used to doing things like that, so then they just think it is normal. This applies to many areas of life, but particularly to tznius, I think.

    #1164987

    What’s the reason they are right in front of the shul? Or in that neighborhood? Do they live right near there or is there a shopping mall with restaurants to hang out near the shul?

    #1164988
    Abba_S
    Participant

    They are probably waiting for someone to come out of shul. They probably don’t realize they are bothering anyone. They have the same rights to stand there and talk as you do, it’s a free country. If it really bothers you speak to their parents if you know them.

    #1164989
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Oh dear there are teenage girls who like to talk and laugh? stop the presses!!!

    #1164990
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Why don’t the men just walk on the side or against the wall?

    #1164991
    Meno
    Participant

    And cover their ears too

    #1164992
    yehudayona
    Participant

    I’m wondering why people start topics with meaningless titles like “wondering???” and “How to help.”

    #1164993

    “Or am I just over doing???”

    Yes.

    #1164994
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    “”Or am I just over doing???”

    Yes.”

    NO.

    #1164995
    Sparkly
    Member

    popa_bar_abba – why should they have too just because of theirs not tznius girls? the girls should start being tnius.

    #1164996
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    I’m just about over doing. Iv’e been doing all day.

    #1164997
    apushatayid
    Participant

    Im wondering if i live in the wrong neighborhood or daven maariv at the wrong shul. I never see young adults or older girls, (or younger girls or older adults) just shmoozing or laughing anywhere near the front of the shul.

    #1164998
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    “popa_bar_abba – why should they have too just because of theirs not tznius girls? the girls should start being tnius.”

    Right on Sparky! Too many people have the attitude that they can do what they want and the guy shouldn’t look!! That’s not the Torah’s hashkafa! According to the Torah, it’s a terrible thing to be machshil others by being untznius.

    Rav Moshe has a teshuva where he talks about how terrible it is when girls wear short skirts because they are causing others to do aveiros.

    #1164999
    Shopping613 🌠
    Participant

    Girls should not be laughing at screaming levels, nor shreiking, nor be standing right in middle of the road, but it’s a free country. You aren’t crazy, I also don’t think it’s tniyus for young men to do the same behaivors.

    #1165000
    Sparkly
    Member

    Shopping613 – i agree. mods can you please change my subtitle to something more appropriate?

    #1165001

    There’s nothing “not tznius” about women talking and laughing in public. For heaven’s sake.

    #1165002
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    Actually there is. Jewish women are not “girls off the street”. We are an Am Hanivchar, an especial unique nation with higher standards. Es passt nisht. We behave as prices and princesses.

    #1165003
    Meno
    Participant

    It’s not tznius for anyone to talk loudly in the street – men or women.

    #1165004

    Pray tell, what makes talking and laughing a “girl off the street”?

    #1165005
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    this is one of those really bad comments that fans the flames between different hashkafos.

    the op (if he wasnt just trying to provoke) was painting a picture that was not a real match to his words. Other people are responding to the picture of boisterous, loud, immodest behavior and those who read the post are hearing it being responded to as it was written.

    This happens all the time and makes huge rifts. Case in point, the kugel story.

    I hate rifts. i hate hate. i hate people fighting because they will jump on anything someone else says purely because of who said it (not here but in other threads)

    ***pulling hair out***

    #1165006
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    and in two seconds “someone” will feel a need to argue with me becuse they will assume I am chareidi bashing – instead of hearing my point – and will feel obligated to negate it whether it is right or not.

    And i hate that too.

    #1165007
    Meno
    Participant

    What’s this kugel story I keep hearing about?

    #1165008
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Syag Lchochma, I hear your point about people arguing just because they are “hearing” something differently. And it is annoying when people get into stupid arguments about things. However, in this case, I do not agree with your take on the situation.

    “I often see young adults or older girls shamusing ,laughing etc. right in middle the street when the men go and come from shul in the late evening. Wouldn”t it be appropiate if they would at least move to the side or against the wall and lower their tone of voice?”

    If you look at his words and not just the “tone”, he writes that the girls should move to the side. It sounds like they are in the middle of the street in a place where the men have to walk on their way in and out of shul. It is inappropriate for girls to be standing right where men are walking out of shul. He writes that they should move to the side – he doesn’t say they should get off the street and go inside, just that they should have the courtesy to move to the side.

    He also writes that they should lower their voices. It sounds like they are being very loud. I mean it is technically possible that they were talking in a regular tone of voice and he thinks that they should whisper, but I did not want to be judgmental and assume that he is the kind of person who thinks that girls have to whisper in public. If he were that kind of person, he probably would have said that they should stop talking in the street which is not what he said.

    #1165009
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
    Participant

    It gets me really annoyed when I pass a group of men/bachurim talking on street corners. It’s usually too large for me to pass by with my stroller and I can’t exactly go on the avenue with it. I have to somehow try to get them to realize someone has to pass without yelling or anything. Annoying.

    #1165010
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    No, Syag. Keep your hair!!

    I just said that we should act in a more refined manner. As Meno wrote – men and women. It’s just that women (are supposed to) have a more internal and natural sense of privacy, discreetness, modesty. And JF there’s nothing wrong with talking or laughing in the street. If others can hear it a block away, that’s being “girl off the street”. Of course as Syag put it, it differs from community to community. Things that stand out in one community are perfectly fine in another.

    But as a general rule one should strive to behave as a prince and princess of HaShem. That’s who we actually are. Remembering that and acting as such helps us in our strive to do His bidding. We are not commoners off the street.

    May all our street be filled with glee and laughter!!!!

    #1165011
    absan
    Participant

    to syag lchochma.. When I was a 7th grader our teacher taught us a wonderful lesson..the teacher asked for 3 artist in the class to draw on a white cardboard there block ,houses, birds, gaubage cans,mailboxes, anything and everything they can think of ..then the teacher asked for seven kids to leave the room and wait outside by the door.The teacher picked 2 kids told them to look at the three drawings and try to remember everything they see, then one kid was called in .The two kids had to tell for the one who came in everything that they remembered they saw on the picture.They remembered most and also added what they beleived was on the drawings.Now another kid came in .The first kid had to repeat everything he heard from the other kids to the secound kid that came in.Of course he forgot some and added some of his own.. again, what he beleived he heard.This continued untill all 7 kids were in .When the 7th kid repeated what he heard 50 percent of the things were missing 25 percent he remembered and 25 was his own beleiving he heard….. now the teacher explained …. we saw live how stories on the street or press is being said..Now dont beleive everything you hear!!!!!,,,,,,, THe same goes with the article I wrote above some answered accordingly what I wrote and some debated about being in front of a shul thats not what I wrote and …there probably waiting for some one… all what I did not mean.I just stated these girls are standing in the street talking and laughing at late evening when the streets are full of men going and coming from shul. I felt those girls should move to the side lower their tone of voice simply not to attract the men .I hope this little story will open our eyes. and by the way THANKS for all your responses …IT WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR SO MANY DIFFERENT OPINIONS…….

    #1165012
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    What’s this kugel story I keep hearing about?

    Someone had to go somewhere after licht bentshen. While she was there, another woman handed her a kugel and said “here, take this”. So she asked why? So the other woman explained that her mother in law was by her for shabbos. So she pretended she was going to bring someone who had a baby or something a kugel. And she can’t come back with the kugel! (As related on imamother).

    #1165013
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    “popa_bar_abba – why should they have too just because of theirs not tznius girls? the girls should start being tnius.”

    Right on Sparky! Too many people have the attitude that they can do what they want and the guy shouldn’t look!! That’s not the Torah’s hashkafa! According to the Torah, it’s a terrible thing to be machshil others by being untznius.

    Maybe, but meanwhile, since the women are doing what they’re doing, at least the men have to do what they can.

    #1165014
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    No, Syag. Keep your hair!!

    is that supposed to be funny or just rude?

    #1165015

    gamanit – haha

    #1165016
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    Sorry Syag, you wrote ***pulling hair out***

    Unless you’re into the “Why do women wear expensive sheitels?” one…

    (I’m generally not rude)

    #1165017
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Popa bar Abba: “Maybe, but meanwhile, since the women are doing what they’re doing, at least the men have to do what they can.”

    Agreed!

    #1165018
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    To say something positive about Am Yisroel during the Nine Days – I was about to walk down an outside staircase the other day and two Israeli Chassidish men were standing on the top of the staircase one on each side. It’s not assur for a girl to walk between 2 men, but I believe that it’s brought down that its’ better not to, and it’s something I usually try to be makpid on.

    So I debated in my head for half a second about what to do (just walk down the stairs anyhow, wait to see if they will move, or walk around a different way that takes about 2 extra seconds) Before I had a chance to think too much, they saw me and moved to the side. I thought that was really nice of them!

    #1165019
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    sorry,lf, and thanks for explaining. I did not mean it literally so I didn’t connect your comment to what I wrote

    #1165020
    Shopping613 🌠
    Participant

    lilmod, I beleive it’s assur. I remember learning about it, I don’t know what sefer it is in but it also says it’s assur to walk between 2 dogs in the same place….

    #1165021
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Shopping – that’s a man walking between 2 women or 2 dogs and one more (maybe pigs?) Each one is for a different reason obviously.

    There is an inyan of a woman not walking between 2 men and I think some may hold it’s assur gamur but I think there are other opinions and I think most posken that it’s not mamash assur.

    It could be that these men held it was assur gamur. That would make sense, since they probably thought that I was much more modern than them so it seems unlikely that they would have assumed that I’m makpid on something that they don’t consider to be assur.

    #1165022
    Joseph
    Participant

    lilmod, why would anyone mistakenly think you’re more modern than them? You are obviously very frum and eidel.

    #1165023
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    Joseph – thanks for the compliment!

    It has to do with different mentalities and societal norms. I have the feeling that to an Israeli Yerushalmi Chassid I may look modern even though I am very tznius imho. My hair is longer than your typical Israeli Chassidish girl’s is, and there could be undefinable style differences – things that I may not even be able to say what they are.

    Basically, the fact that I don’t look like an Israeli Chassidish girl (since I’m not one) may make me look modern to them. It’s the same way that if I see a girl or guy dressed in a way that is typically considered “modern” then even if they are technically tznius, I may automatically think of them as more modern than someone who is dressed more “yeshivish” and while I may assume they are makpid on halacha, I might not assume that they are makpid on things that are not strictly halacha but that Yeshivish people are makpid on.

    #1165024
    Lefty SoferStam
    Participant

    “lilmod, why would anyone mistakenly think you’re more modern than them? You are obviously very frum and eidel.

    That’s a little bit creepy compliments to a girl like that.

    #1165025
    Little Froggie
    Participant

    Shopping and lilmod

    I believe that sefer is a Gemarah (somewhere). And it goes both ways, a man between two women and a woman between two men. (lilmod should have learned that!)

    #1165026
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    That’s right lf,

    But it has to do with kishuf (witchcraft) the Gemara is in the end of pesachim

    Idk if the Halacha is based off of that

    #1165027
    absan
    Participant

    to syag lchochma..maybe i am late but i actualy meant to explain how well you wrote your comment..thanks

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