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Okie. now I feel the need to say something sober.
Merely being pretty is not a sin. A girl does her’s, and Hashem does the rest. There are plenty of sickos out there; the fact that some guy is out of control is not her problem. She need not wear a burqa. Or even a hijab. I suppose eventually they will come into style. You know, like a Tommy Burqa. In which case they will cost $600 and frum girls will have fist fights over the last one at Estis. But until then…
But as far the oneshim of chazal…I mean, if you’d like to learn literal haskafah from that one, you’d also –
Lose your eyes if you misquote a source (Chagigah 3b)
Die if you –
Teach a posuk wrong (Bava Basra 21b)
Come late to a drasha ( Bava Basra 22a)
If you get mad at your chavrusa (Bava Metziah 84a)
If you try to fool a talmid chacham (Brachos 58a)
Do something mutar in public that other may not know is ossur for them (avodah zara 17)
Pushing off a yoledes’s korban (Shabbos 55b)
There’s a lot more death in chazal, but I’ll spare ya.
Obviously, she did something wrong in inyaney tzinius. Deeply wrong. But it doesn’t mean the onesh for a lack of tzinius is death. Chazal are teaching us how important the inyan is, but not literally.
Though OOmis, your attitude towards chazal is very sad.
Yes, the story is in Mesechta Taanis. But Gemaras are meant to studied b’iyun. But your attitude is very sad. There is a whole shas out there, full of depth. Sad sad.
Either learn Gemara, or accept that women don’t learn Gemara, and don’t impose your opinion on it.
Anyway, back to sarcasm.