Israel – Rav Yeshayahu Herzl, Chief Rabbi of Natzerat Illit, said Thursday that a flyer signed by Chabad rabbis against mixed-audience music performances was not directed against an upcoming show in Afula, located at the northwest corner of the Jezreel Valley, by singer Avraham Fried.
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“The headline that said that we forbid participation in Fried’s show is incorrect. There is nothing personal here, we were not talking about a specific personality.”
Rav Herzl explained that the rabbi’s flyer was directed to the G-d fearing public and not to the singers themselves. “We as rabbis think that the God fearing public does not have a heter [rabbinical permission] to participate in shows that do not have separation [between men and women]. We assume that the singers who are themselves hareidi asked their rabbis if they should perform. But we have a duty to warn our people in order to avoid mishaps.
is avraham performing with mixed seating or family seating?
I don’t know why the Rabbis are so afraid to come out against things that they feel is against the Halacha of the Torah. It seems they are so petrified. It is their obligation; if it is wrong say out loud it is wrong. If it is not wrong then it is not wrong for anyone. The only place where we see 2 sets of Halachas is for someone who is considered a sick person, but not by attendees of a concert. I don’t say anything Chas Vesholom against Rabbis . They know better than me. But, I ask I want to understand.
About time they spoke out against this pritzus. Today everything is done with the excuse of kiruv rechokim. Did Chazal permit one to eat chazir at a restaurant with a non frum Jew on the basis of being mekarev him? What is forbidden is forbidden no matter what and stop trying to use the excuse of kiruv rechokim for your own personal monetary gain
Sick Rabbis that’s why we have so many problems…why is it that when its a time to be happy do Rabbis always make problems?(like we don’t have already)
Esther is right. Posting no. 5 is being sarcastic and simply is trying to deny the reality that family and mixed seating are both the same sort of so called “pritzius” that these rabbonim are warning against.
The gemora Sukah (perek 5) tells us, what a “big tikkun” was made in the holy bais hamikdash, while thousands of yidden were gathering for simchas bais hashoaivoh, that men and women were separated and on different levels so it wouldn’t bring to mixing gender, yes! In the holy place where people were so full of kedusha, much more than our people today, and still, chazal were still concerned it shouldn’t bring to pirtzos, what can we say? Are we holier than the yidden in time of Bais hamikdash? Is the stadium more immune against yetzer hora than b”h.
so rather go to a broadway show?
Dear Jewish community:
Your ideas of what is issur and can not be tolerated among our people is getting ridiculous. Mixed seating at a non religious event is not issur. You are about to make the whole existence of any of our people very painful and disruptive.
as we say in Israel .. “the dogs bark, but the convoy travels on”
The Rabbonim pronounced a correct ruling. It was directed to the Anshei Chabad. Let’s be proud that it ended in such a professional manner.