[Avodah] Habituation

[T613K at aol.com]

From:  Michael Makovi _mikewinddale at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:mikewinddale at gmail.com) 




>>  If a blind man cannot see an attractive woman,
for example, that  seems to me to mitigate the issur of looking at her,
even though he's  neither habituated nor distracted. He won't have
hirhur / hana'ah from her,  and to me, that's enough.  <<


Michael  Makovi

 
 
 
 
>>>>>
I wish you would elaborate a bit more on this heter of a blind man looking  
at an attractive woman. I am having trouble picturing it or understanding 
the  practical application.  Does Playboy come in a Braille edition?  Oh  but 
that would be looking at pictures -- and you are talking about looking at 
an  actual woman.  How would the blind man do that?  What is it you are  
confidently asserting he is allowed to do -- turn his head in her general  
direction?  I think even a fully sighted man is allowed to look at an  attractive 
woman, if his eyes are closed or she is wearing a burka or for some  other 
reason he cannot see her.
 


--Toby Katz
==========



-------------------- 






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20100209/e043b27f/attachment-0002.htm>