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Psak Halochoh

BS"D, Av 5767

We were appalled to hear of the terrible breach in our camp in the form of arvei shirah and concerts featuring singers and chazanim who sing before men and women in mixed company Rachmono litzlan and even with separate seating.

Previously gedolei Yisroel totally banned these events, even where there is separate seating. As such we hereby state our opinion, which is based on daas Torah.

A. Attending these performances is totally prohibited

B. The prohibition applies to both the organizers and the audience — young and old, men and women — and all the more so on the singers and chazanim, who are inducing the masses to sin.

C. Newspapers and advertising circulars should not help by advertising these performances.

D. The singers and chazanim who appear before a mixed audience may not be invited to sing at any event, nor can any event at which they participate be advertised, including tefillos and kosher events, in order to avoid lending a hand to transgressors

May Hashem Yisborach, in His great mercy and kindness, bring them to do teshuvoh before Him, and may we merit the eternal Redemption — oz yimolei sechok pinu.

Signing for the sake of the sanctity and purity of our people,

Yosef Sholom Eliashiv

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman

Yaakov Aryeh Alter

Yissochor Dov

Shmuel Halevi Wosner

Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz

Chaim Pinchos Sheinberg

Tzvi Elimelech

Nissim Karelitz

Dovid Twersky

Shmuel Auerbach

Yitzchok Sheiner

 

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