{"id":275,"date":"2011-10-30T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-10-30T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:18:38","slug":"modern-genitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/religions\/judaism\/modern-genitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Genitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Talmud says \u2018Kol Be-Isha Erva\u2019<\/em>. The direct literal translation of our sages in this case reads \u2018A woman\u2019s voice is her genitals\u2019<\/em>. Luckily, the meaning is not the direct translation, but it\u2019s almost. The meaning is \u2018a woman’s singing voice induces desire, and therefore is not allowed to be heard by men\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The origins of this absurd rule are not necessarily the same as its current strict interpretation. It was probably aimed at some specific prayer (not that this meaning was somewhat more justified). Still, nowadays it has evolved to forbid any male Orthodox Jew to listen to a woman sings. It\u2019s still ok to listen to a woman talks. Yay.<\/p>\n

One wouldn\u2019t really care that much about religious oddities, but it seems once you try to avoid them – they chase you wherever you are. The recent huge debate in the IDF (Israeli army) is not \u2018how to tackle terror\u2019 or \u2018what to do with Iran\u2019s nuclear effort\u2019, but rather: Are male soldiers allowed to leave official ceremonies where and when women sing? The strongest and most modern army in the middle-east is developing high-tech anti-missile defense, but is afraid of songs. Perhaps this should be the new Hammas weapon at hand – it seems more effective in driving away soldiers, than the old fashioned ballistic pipes filled with explosives.<\/p>\n

One should also research the unclear boundaries defined by modern technologies: Is a woman\u2019s voice still forbidden if distorted by audio-processing software? Is a man\u2019s voice ok if made higher in pitch by the same software? What about artificial text-to-speech results? Rest assured, there will be a good religious verdict for each. God\u2019s taste in voices cannot be left to coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Talmud says \u2018Kol Be-Isha Erva\u2019. The direct literal translation of our sages in this case reads \u2018A woman\u2019s voice is her genitals\u2019. Luckily, the meaning is not the direct translation, but it\u2019s almost. The meaning is \u2018a woman’s singing voice induces desire, and therefore is not allowed to be heard by men\u2019. The origins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,27,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-and-state","category-judaism","category-ritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}