[Avodah] mixed swimming

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From: "Meir Shinnar" _chidekel at gmail.com_ (mailto:chidekel at gmail.com) 


WRT mixed swimming
This discussion has come up in the past, and, as I  previously
documented, it was common practice for rabbanim and rebbitzens to  go
mixed swimming at least through the 1950s -  including names that  are
well known - 
 
>>>>>
In one of the previous iterations of this thread, I once wrote, on Areivim,  
a parody passage based on MOAG ("Making of a Gadol" -- the inspiring and  
fascinating biography of R' Yakov Kaminetsky).  In my parody I wrote that  the 
roshei yeshiva of Slabodka and their wives used to go mixed swimming.   I thought 
that this was so obviously over the top, such obvious parody, that  everyone 
would see immediately that I was making fun of the notion that mixed  swimming 
was ever accepted in the old yeshiva world.  However, to my dismay  and 
distress, many people did NOT realize that it was meant as a parody and  actually 
took my post seriously.  They really thought that I was quoting an  actual 
passage in MOAG!   Of all the hundreds (make that  thousands) of posts I've 
written on A/A over the years, that is the one I most  intensely regret having 
written.  In Slabodka they did NOT go mixed  swimming.  I need to put that on the 
record, as partial expiation for my  past wrong-doing.  Some things are just 
not properly the subject of  attempted humor.

 



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