Friday, May 08, 2009

Nonsense is Nonsense: Of Rubber Soles and Tzni'us

I just saw this insanity.* I only have two comments, not my own:

'Some things aren't Assur because they're Assur. They're assur because they're stupid and it's Assur to be stupid.'
----Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik זצ"ל
די גרעסטע מצוה איז ניט צו זיין קיין נאר.
הרה"ח ר' הירש יוסף כהנסון זצ"ל (סבא רבא של אשתי
[* I am referring to the Psak. Parshablog's discussion was interesting.]

5 comments:

BrooklynWolf said...
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BrooklynWolf said...

To be fair, I don't think it was a p'sak. It was a misguided desperate mother's request for her son's well being.

The Wolf

Jeffrey R. Woolf said...

I wish that were true. Check out the comments at the bottom of the Parshablog posting.

Gabriel Wasserman said...

You sure you don't mean נאַר, Yiddish for fool?

Jeffrey R. Woolf said...

sorry. i correct the text.