[Avodah] walking between 2 women

[Zev Sero]

On 25/08/2011 10:40 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:32:04AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> I dispute the whole notion that passing between two rows each consisting
>> of many people is an issue.  By the same logic one would have to avoid
>> walking down a tree-lined avenue or a forest path! ...

> Shuros at a levayah, r"l.

Um, that was the very point being addressed!  The article cited claimed
that women don't go down the shura, something that does not accord with
my experience.  (Though at more modern levayos what I've seen is that
one of the shuros is made up of men and the other of wpmen, which would
obviate the entire question for aveilim of both sexes.)


[Email #2. -micha]

>      Ultimately, planting any palm in multiples that are spaced only 3
>      feet apart [that being the distance in the question -micha]

The article doesn't say what distance *is* appropriate.  Perhaps 6 feet
is enough?  And date palms don't take up as much room as the Canary
Island palms that we're used to.  In addition, the article is talking
about planting saplings that close to each other; I'm talking about the
grown trees being that close, which means the saplings were planted
farther apart.


> Palm trees need their space, and therefore this din involves a rare
> metzi'us.

Rare or not, would anyone suggest that one should not walk down such
a path?  I don't think so.


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Zev Sero
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