[Avodah] When does mixed swimming mean?

Michael Makovi mikewinddale at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 21:12:03 PDT 2008


> >> She responded to me, however, that there is no issur of wearing tight
> clothing.
> Mikha'el Makovi

> This is a common problem of people caring too much about the letter of the
> law and not enough about the spirit of the law. If someone cares about their
> relationship to Hashem and His requirements for dressing appropriately, why
> would wearing a skin-tight long sleeve shirt even be a thought? This would
> be entirely inappropriate to such an extent that it would have been a waste
> of paper and ink for any halachic source to require its banishment!

R' Liron Kopinsky (cf. R' Daniel Israel)

Indeed, I had simply assumed it was prohibited (without ever having
seen a source), and I simply assumed there'd be a source were I to
look for it. Only when she said, with complete surety, that there was
no such prohibition, was I brought short.

Is there any halachic statement, regarding tzenua or any other issue,
that one could use to justify this meta-letter-of-halakha concept of
tzenua? I can think of "Do what is good and right...", but other than
that...

Mikha'el Makovi



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