Reply To: Modern Music…..prohibited?

Mayan Dvash…I am pretty sure that Yussel said it tongue in cheek….don’t take everything so literally!…

Blue shirt gave a pretty spirited (and rather strong) response to “pstsemgirl”. I’ll add my two cents to his opinion.

What I, and so many others, are getting tired of, are not decisions based on halacha. On that, I have no issue with anyone, although, as discussed on another site, even these decisions can conflict. (how much hair should be covered, how long a skirt..etc). What many people are sick and tired of is the “talibanization’ of Yiddishkeit. Do you think that there is a real basis in halacha or yiddishkeit to make men walk on one side of the street and women on the other??? Do you think that there is any basis in halacha in decreeing a certain song (or singer) “treif”? (Please, do not quote me the halacha of remembering churban habayis in Orach chaim chelek sheni, I know it as well as you and this is a discussion for another time)

The point is that we live a normal life with normal feelings and normal temptations. It is up to us to rise above it all.Sure, you can have certain gedorim but there comes a point that these gedorim beome so absurd that the Klal wiill not abide by it.

I must emphasize that you or anyone else has the right to bow to these restrictions if you so desire. But I guarantee you that many,mnay chareidim will simply ignore it and they will just move out of these places and live elsewhere.

It is a game of control and it has precious little to do with real yiddishkeit.