[Avodah] When does mixed swimming mean?
Moshe Y. Gluck
mgluck at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 20:12:54 PDT 2008
R' Joel Rich:
> Vrochetz means to swim? One might posit that mixed sponge bathing or
> microwave cleaning would be assur due to the bodily contortions involved
> in cleaning one's body, not the medium of water.
R' SBA:
> Al achas kamo vekamo, leisure and relaxing activities in the water.
It seems to me that swimming pools bring out a person's inner child to some
degree (perhaps due to the relative weightlessness?) thereby leading to
Kalus Rosh more so than, say, a formal dinner (even where alcohol is
served). IOW, even if the visual aspects of Tzenius were totally absent
there still might be an issue.
KT,
MYG
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