[Avodah] Parameters of breastfeeding in public

M Cohen mcohen at touchlogic.com
Thu Aug 12 07:26:48 PDT 2010


One doesn't do an activity in public that reminds pple 
of that activity or gets them thinking about that activity,
even though pple can't see the actual activity.

ie one attempts to refrain from defecating in public in a way that 
everyone knows what you are doing, even though they can't actually see.

Similarly, having sexual relations.

Similarly, the tznius issue of skirt slits 
that are located below the knee.

I assume that the 'non tznius' issue of breastfeeding 
in public covered by a nursing blanket
is that it hints to that area of the body, 
and reminds everyone that it 
is currently 'uncovered' 
(even though it is covered by the nursing blanket etc)

As with other issues that are laudatory but not mandatory,
(I doubt that anyone says that public nursing 
covered by the nursing blanket is asur min hadin)
whether one nurses in public would depend on the circumstances.

Degree of necessity?
Only non Jews around?
Distance of others to the nursing?
etc

Mordechai Cohen





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