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  • #602609
    hershi
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    What heter exists for male photographers and videographers to watch women dancing or for women to dance in front of these men?

    #861803
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    Tarid B’Melachto (just like a lifeguard, doctor, etc.)?

    The Wolf

    #861804
    Sam2
    Participant

    Rav Moshe has a T’shuvah permitting men to be lifeguards. Presumably this would be the same.

    Also, the Issur of watching women dance is very unclear to begin with, especially if they aren’t dancing inappropriately. Still, if a photographer knows that seeing the women dance will lead him to Assur thoughts, then he isn’t allowed to videotape the women.

    #861805
    cherrybim
    Participant

    The same heter that male doctors have to be involved, albeit medically, with women when today female doctors are available.

    #861806
    mench21
    Member

    They are not video taping for pleasure.

    #861807
    hershi
    Member

    Lifeguards are pekuach nefesh. I don’t see them comparable.

    (Additionally, if I recall that heter is only if a woman lifeguard isn’t possible.)

    As an aside, after the video of women dancing at the wedding is produced, what is the likelihood of no man watching it?

    #861808
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    I once had a friend who worked for a non-jewish day camp. He told me that he had a psak from his rav that it was ok for him to attend the swimming together with the female counselors because he is busy with his work.

    So I naively asked him whether he found that it was true, that he was too busy working to look at the girls.

    He pretended to not understand the question.

    #861809
    Logician
    Participant

    And what’s with the pictures ?

    A man may not study a women to enjoy her beauty (“mistakel”).

    There are those who differentiate between photographers and the other professions mentioned, because his job is specifically to focus on the women’s face and make sure she looks good.

    hershi – very doubtful that lifnei iver is involved, anyone can easily watch anything else.

    #861810
    farrocks
    Member

    If men can’t watch the wedding video because women are dancing in it, I guess even the Choson himself cannot watch it!

    As far as taking the pictures of the women dancing, why don’t they just use women photographers for that?

    #861811
    Ken Zayn
    Member

    Women dancing? Hrrrmph! Thats an oxymoron if ever there was one. You mean shrugging their shoulders and waving their feet around a little

    #861812
    sof davar
    Member

    “Lifeguards are pekuach nefesh.”

    But going swimming is not.

    #861813
    menucha12
    Member

    well as a woman i feel it is kinda akward having guy photographers and video men on the womens side, its better to have a male and female photographers and video takers.

    its worth the money to have everyone comfortable

    #861814
    oomis
    Participant

    So what heter is there for a Jewish guy to deliver babies, or work on Hatzolah, teach girls in Yeshivah, or simply work in a store where women shop? We can take this to a really out-there level, if we want to, but people need to make a parnassah, and SOMEONE has to interact with women on a regular basis. It is not feasible for it to solely be other women all the time.

    #861815
    msseeker
    Member

    (Sigh) Priorities, priorities.

    #861816
    hershi
    Member

    Rav Moshe says specifically the lifeguard is permitted due to pikuach nefesh. Rav Moshe adds that even though it is permissable because of that, he says it shouldn’t be done. (I also think he limits it to a non-Jewish male lifeguard.) So there are many reasons it isn’t comparable to a photographer.

    oomis1105: A male teacher or salesman doesn’t see women dance. (And the women don’t dance in front of a guy.)

    #861817
    mom12
    Participant

    Actually I myself feel kinda uncomfortable in a store where a male is at the counter and helpng out with female necessities.

    I do avoid them.

    #861818
    Logician
    Participant

    oomis – no one questioned the heter of “oseik b’milachto”. lets not get hysterical.

    And are there really no women to help women pick…ahem…certain items ? Must she discuss it with a man ?

    PBA – Along those lines, I know of a pool where many frum women swim, with male lifeguards. One of these men once told someone that the lifegurds fight for the “all women’s” shift.

    #861819
    Sam2
    Participant

    Hershi: I’ll look it up again, but if I recall correctly Pikuach Nefesh wasn’t one of R’ Moshe’s points (sort of, I see how it could be read that way but I don’t think it’s limited to Pikuach Nefesh cases). I do recall him mentioning the lifeguard being a non-Jew though.

    #861820
    a mamin
    Participant

    You would be “suprised” but by most all Chassidishe weddings there is women photographers for the women! There are some high schools in Boro Park that do not allow their students to dance in front of men photographers.

    #861821
    hershi
    Member

    I forgot to mention there is also kol isha / live singing by the women in front of the male photographers.

    #861822
    Sam2
    Participant

    Hershi: I would assume that that is okay by the S’ridei Eish.

    #861823

    I recall hearing (can’t remember where)that it is less of a problem for women photographers to photograph men than for men to photograph women. Anyone here that?

    #861824
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    hershi: No, there isn’t.

    #861825
    hershi
    Member

    OOM: There isn’t a heter or the women don’t sing during dancing?

    #861827
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    They don’t sing. Which makes sense, because a person doesn’t have to be on the other side of the mechitza to hear it.

    #861828
    hershi
    Member

    Well, the eardrum busting musicians make sure no one would hear it anyways. Do the women hear the men sing despite the decibel volume of the band?

    (You still have the dancing in front of men issue outstanding.)

    #861829

    “If men can’t watch the wedding video because women are dancing in it, I guess even the Choson himself cannot watch it!”

    Well, actually, at my wedding we didn’t have any video (though my father made a couple of short clips with his camera).

    And indeed, my wife who was in those days still the super-extreme-frum type of BT (as was I), wouldn’t let me watch the *pictures* of the ladies side! Took a few weeks before she allowed me to see those pictures.

    By now we’re a little less extreme, but more stable… It’s better to be at a ‘lower’ level yet be 100% stable, than to be super-frum and unstable and risk frumming out.

    #861830
    yitayningwut
    Participant

    There are those who differentiate between photographers and the other professions mentioned, because his job is specifically to focus on the women’s face and make sure she looks good.

    This is an important point.

    #861831
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    hershi: Um. That doesn’t make a difference. The point is they just don’t. I am not trying to make any point about the photography.

    #861832
    Logician
    Participant

    Gatesheader – a common issue. Would make a great thread.

    #861833
    writersoul
    Participant

    Ken Zayn: Unfortunately, you’re wrong about some people’s definition of women’s dancing. After my cousin’s wedding, I now do not associate with my mother in public.

    Now THAT was embarrassing.

    Then again, there is some pretty cool stuff in the men’s section. Like my cousin who did a triple cartwheel in front of the chosson and kallah. I had no idea he could do that.

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