[Avodah] Attending religious services other than Jewish

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:55:35PM -0200, Claudia Gaspar wrote:
: A friend of mine who is x-tian lost his 20-year old son in a terrible
: motorcycle accident.
: He invited me to attend a mass and I know it's very important to him I can
: be present in a so painful time.

Ask your poseiq, of course. But speaking on a theoretical plane...

RYBS didn't allow watching JFK's Catholic funeral on TV. We're talking
about actual AZ here, at least WRT our participation. (Shituf and 6
mitzvos benei Noach aside, we're talking about you attending.) I expect
a poseiq would tell you that you can't do one of the yeihareig ve'al
ya'avor to save someone else some pain.

I would expect a poseiq to tell you to wait at the sidewalk, so that
you're with him before and after, and perhaps not being during -- when
there is a family pew that you wouldn't be on anyway -- wouldn't be
a big deal for him.


:-)BBii!
-Micha

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