tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post8405446345068431804..comments2024-03-28T21:53:53.990+02:00Comments on Life in Israel: Interesting Psak: nose rings and chukas hagoyimRafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-65015227238348088932018-05-11T17:10:00.321+03:002018-05-11T17:10:00.321+03:00Again, how do we know it was socially acceptable? ...Again, how do we know it was socially acceptable? There is plenty of more recent nude art, and at no time during the painters' lives would it have been acceptable to walk around that way in public.<br /><br />And there are places today where it's socially-acceptable, if not outright expected, for women to be topless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-60706797699827366772018-05-10T09:28:47.181+03:002018-05-10T09:28:47.181+03:00Because they left us pictures.
Among other things...Because they left us pictures.<br /><br />Among other things, it was socially acceptable for women to go topless in those days- not all the time, not all women, not all social classes, but it happened, and no one blinked an eye- or at least not much more than if we, today, saw a topless man. Certainly women working in the fields on a hot day wouldn't wear a top. And that's not any sort of knock on them; it was the tzniut standard of the day.<br /><br />Compared to that, nose rings are nothing.<br /><br />(Remember that men wore earrings back then too. See the egel hazahav story.)Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-29430373851150105532018-05-09T14:03:46.410+03:002018-05-09T14:03:46.410+03:00How do we know what women of that place and era wo...How do we know what women of that place and era wore? Why would it be unacceptable in civilization today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-54210937482875425432018-05-09T10:33:19.582+03:002018-05-09T10:33:19.582+03:00If R' Aviner is condemning it, then you know i...If R' Aviner is condemning it, then you know it's more and more widespread in his circles- as indeed it is, for anyone who knows any settler-type chardali young women. Again, the logic being that our holy mothers did it, so why can't we? It's the same reason the men wear "beged ivri."<br /><br />Of course, the imahot also dressed in ways that would be unacceptable anywhere in civilization these days, but at least no one's doing that.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-19287607091692501732018-05-08T17:55:38.342+03:002018-05-08T17:55:38.342+03:00It is an interesting post and topic,though this do...It is an interesting post and topic,though this does seem overly simplistic<br />Cohen Yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10390216916461397207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-37807167865936089042018-05-08T17:38:31.767+03:002018-05-08T17:38:31.767+03:00Wearing a Rolex is Chukat Hagoyim by this definiti...Wearing a Rolex is Chukat Hagoyim by this definition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-77391406568167686172018-05-08T16:50:05.106+03:002018-05-08T16:50:05.106+03:00The Rabbi is right here. Even though it might hav...The Rabbi is right here. Even though it might have been a tradition about 4000 years ago and even later; but since for over 2000 years it is not. Today, we have a young non-Jewish generation which has sort of gone rogue and wear nose rings, earrings on all part of their ears and even tongue rings - crazy, it is, therefore, very inappropriate (I think ugly) to wear such items as it is chukat hagoyim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com