Kobi Nahshoni – YNet
Former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu warned this week of the rising prominence of the liberal stream in religious Zionism and slammed Rabbis who allow association with women.
During a Torah lesson he delivered on Monday, the prominent national religious leader spoke at length about the importance of observing chastity codes. He advised soldiers to cover their ears during military ceremonies that include women singing. “It’s better to go to jail than to obey the commander and hear a woman sing or play.” He stated.
Eliyahu stressed that listening to a woman deliver a speech, if she did so while using hand gestures, was also forbidden: “It’s very serious. One should watch out for these things.”
Men and women sitting together at weddings is also forbidden, according to the rabbi, let alone dancing together. “Today at weddings everything is allowed – to dance, to look… a man dances with a woman he doesn’t know… This is a very serious thing!”
“Rabbis, repent!” urged Eliyahu. “Admit: Say, ‘we were wrong. We won’t allow mixed dancing, mixed weddings, mixed sitting’.” He said that more liberal poskim (rabbis that issue halachic rulings) were favored by women, “Because a woman wants to be looked at. But men don’t like them, because men know this is wrong.”
‘Soldiers should disobey orders’
The former chief rabbi further stated that a man must never send his regards to another man’s wife. “A man can say to another man, ‘My wife sends her regards to your wife’ but not, ‘Tell your wife I said hi.’ This is the road of chastity, which is the most important thing for the Jewish people.”
I don’t think that he is bashing women. I think that he is putting an appropriate mechitza between men and women. Fenced make for good neighbors.
I had a friend that thought just like you, until her husband met a gorgeous young girl at a mixed event.
Maybe you are not married, and you don’t care who your husband flirts and hangs out with.
Bottom line he did not take any rights away from women, and did not inferiorize women.
could you rephrase that into understandable English?
Women and man think that when you get married its “ok” to talk with other man or women but its the same halacha form when you are single??
maybe it will speed Moshiachs coming,
instead of whats going on today! in the memtes world
can there be posted some laws of proper jewish ethical code bc i dont know to much
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu is a true Chossid of the Rebbe’s, and a great leader. The norms and terminology of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land is quite different from our own. Add to that Ynet’s certain liberal translation of his words. I’m sure he did not insinuate that women are unneeded or unimportant.
HALACHA IS HALACHA
Too funny!
These people are way too fanatic. They want women to disappear. its rediculous.
Send your own regards, ladies! We don’t need our husbands to do our talking for us!!
When gedolim figure out how it’s halachically permissible to propagate the Jewish people without women, they will just gender-select embryos for boys, and hire goyim to raise the boys and get ready for Shabbos. We’re toast. But at least there will be no more women around to look at!