[Avodah] Culturally questionable Purim costumes

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:37:12PM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: It seems to me that if you live in a neighborhood (or a time) where the  
: association between a particular costume and some A'Z religion has been  
: forgotten and is not known, then there is no longer any prohibition...

So your kids go trick-or-treating?

:                                                                       How  could 
: people be culpable for something they didn't even know about?

Isn't that what "beshogeig" means?

I think the difference between AZ and derekh Emori is just that -- you
need to know the kashrus of the *origins* of a practice before adopting
it.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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