[Avodah] fashion models and opera singers

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:

> If it's not OK for a Jewish man to hear a woman sing I don't know how it 
> can be OK for a Jewish woman to sing in a venue where there is a very 
> high probability that at least one member of the audience is a Jewish man.

Why not?  This is not just "one side of the river"; there is literally
nothing the singer can do that would prevent or lessen the listener's
putative avera.  The opera will go on, with exactly the same number of
female singers, whether she is in it or not; the man will attend it,
and will hear the same songs coming from voices just as female.

The proper analogy is not to "two sides of the river" or "one side",
but to a goy who is standing with a cup of wine on a tray, and a yid
come and stands beside him with another cup of exactly the same size,
also on a tray.  Along comes a nazir who announces his determination
to drink exactly one cup of wine, not a drop more or less, walks up to
the two cup-holders and chooses the yid's wine instead of the goy's,
while they both stand there doing nothing.  In that case I don't think
anyone would hold the yid even peripherally responsible for the nazir's
avera.

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