[Avodah] me-rakdim

[Eli Turkel]

That was exactly the question to him. He felt that body language would
convey
wjether the dancer felt the kallah was beautiful or not.
Alternatively it was a combination of dancing and talking.
Similarly on tu be-av mecholot is still dancing but that lead to the
discussions between the prospective partners.

For those that dont know R. Leff he is the rabbi of Mattisyahu and
an ex-American and a black hatter and most important an important
talmid chacham. So when he admits that in the days of chazal there
was dancing in front of the opposite sex both by rabbanonim and in
front of the kallah it is to be taken seriously

kol tuv

Eli Turkel



On 8/28/06, SBA <sba at sba2.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Eli Turkel" <>
> I recently saw R. Leff at a wedding and asked him to translate
> "kezad merakdim lefnei hakallah". He insisted that merakdim means
> to dance. As to Rashi and the answers he interpreted that as "body
> language" so that the dancing implied or included some attitudes.
> >>
>
> In reply to the question of "Keitzad merakdin'', the gemara
> brings machlokes BH and BS ie, 'kallah na'eh vechasida' and
> 'kalla kemos shehi'.
>
> How do we understand this, if the question was simply talking
> about body and language and dancing?
>
> SBA
>



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Eli Turkel
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