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Should male-female interdancing be banned?
Mstislav:
--- Quote ---You really have no understanding of morality or Jewish customs. Having contact with other women, besides one of your own family, is wrong. A husband or even an unmarried man should not be dancing with strange women. And if he's married he should only be dancing with his wife or daughter.
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Did that come from islam?
Jasmina:
dancing is fun and good exercise
jdl4ever:
Yacov, what's with all these irrelevant polls?
Mstislav:
--- Quote from: Daniel on October 11, 2007, 11:12:49 PM ---Erica, you need to understand the concept of "shomer negia" which means careful touching. Religious Jews believe that it is wrong and inappropriate to even shake hands with someone of the opposite gender. I was in an organization where the staff were religious and shomer negia. Whenever everyone danced, the guys and the ladies needed to dance in separate circles. Whenever we put our arms around each other to sway back and forth to the songs, we needed to do so separately. At one shabbaton, my friend naively put his arm around one of the female staff members while we were swaying to a song. At the point, the lady turned around and said, "Uhhmm, there's a problem here." My friend and I were both confused and we then had this concept explained to us and about how everyone in the organization practiced this. I was surprised and befuddled about this. At that point, I recognized that the guys and girls always danced and swayed separately from each other, but never understood why. When this situation happened, I finally understood what was going on. I later learned more about the concept and the rationale behind it. There is a belief that even if you touch someone of the opposite sex, it has the potential of creating an uncontrollable urge which can eventually lead to having sex with the person. So the rules of touching are very strictly enforced by those who observe this. In this organization (called JPSY - Jewish Public School Youth), they staff had an ongoing gag where a guy and girl would scream out, "Kosher high five!", they would go to move their hands towards in other in the movement of making a high five, but then deliberately miss each others' hands.
So this concept being expressed here isn't some crazy idea thought up of Yacov or anyone else on here. It's a common practice of religious Jews. I don't personally agree or subscribe to this. But I do understand it and respect it, just as long as others don't try to impose this belief on me.
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--- Quote ---There is a belief that even if you touch someone of the opposite sex, it has the potential of creating an uncontrollable urge which can eventually lead to having sex with the person.
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Nothing of the sort will happen unless BOTH parties want this. If one know better, they should do better. HaShem will reward them for it in the future. As far as I know, muzzies are the ones who cannot control their urges. It is shocking to find practices done in islam observed in Judaism.
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
--- Quote from: Mstislav on October 13, 2007, 11:29:58 PM ---
--- Quote ---You really have no understanding of morality or Jewish customs. Having contact with other women, besides one of your own family, is wrong. A husband or even an unmarried man should not be dancing with strange women. And if he's married he should only be dancing with his wife or daughter.
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Did that come from islam?
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No, anyway Judaism existed much prior to Islam.
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