The Belzer Rebbe Shlita took part in a kinnos held on Sunday night the eve of 29 Shevat to address the threat of technological devices. The event was broadcast live to areas where Belzer Chassidim live to permit chassidim to hear the rebbe’s words directly from him.
The rebbe spoke a great deal about tznius and said that a mother who does not dress modestly is not capable of properly watching and raising her children. “Don’t think the children to do not understand” warns the rebbe “They see and understand everything!”
“הנשים שמסתובבות ברחובות ומתלבשות בפריצות, צריך להסתכל עליהן כמו שמסתכלים על החיות והבהמות שהולכות בלי בגדים. אלו שהולכות בדרכי הצניעות צריכות לזקוף ולהרים את ראשן בגאווה דקדושה. על ידי זה מקדשים שם שמים. צריכים לשמוח שזוכים ללכת בדרכי אבותינו ואבות אבותינו. מפעם לפעם יוצא שנשים הולכות ברחוב ומדברות עם חברות או קרובות, צריך שידברו בלחש ולא בקול רעש גדול”.
The rebbe adds that women who are outside dressed unacceptably must be viewed as ‘chayos and beheimos’ that move about without clothing while those dressed modestly display pride and kedusha, thereby making a Kiddush Hashem. “We must be happy that we are able to walk in the paths of our forefathers and their forefathers”. The rebbe also addressed the music we listen to and how music impacts our neshomos.
The rebbe advises women to refrain from discussing the goings on in their homes with friends for doing so can lead to difficulty and significant damage and destruction. The rebbe warned about bringing prohibited items into one’s home and to prevent children from visiting homes of people who have prohibited items in their homes including internet connectivity and smartphones. The rebbe calls for distancing oneself from these items and this applies to men and women equally.
The rebbe adds even one who has to use this for business, there must be a hechsher and this does not permit bringing them into the home under any circumstances, referring to this as a ‘churban’.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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One of the very nice things about Belz is how welcoming they are to outsides, even women not dressed according to their tznius standards. I have gone to the Belz tisch many times, not dressed as a chassidish woman, and have never been treated like a naked beheima or animal, on the contrary. I can even testify first hand that at the Rebbe’s first grandson’s wedding all the women in the waiting staff at the women’s building (which BTW consisted of men too) were dressed quite immodestly, and nobody said boo.
So this statement seems sort of void.