[Avodah] Glasses look to keep women out of sight

[Rafi and Shifra Goldmeier]

is the issue really one of pritzus that is "requiring" some people to 
wear these glasses? if the people wearing these glasses are mostly 
located in mea Shearim (or maybe also RBS B), similar to the people 
wearing the burkas and veils, isnt the level of pritzus fairly marginal 
in these areas? We are not really talking about people walking through 
Tel Aviv or downtown Jerusalem with these glasses, where they *might* be 
required by some stretch of an imagination.

So, if the inventor is mass-manufacturing them and selling them in 
stores to people who might need them because they are in such areas, 
perhaps you are right about requiring such a hetter and these glasses 
actually making that possible. If the people using them are limited to a 
few people in mea Shearim, then somehow the issue of pritzus is not 
really the issue.

kol tuv
Rafi Goldmeier

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On 10/8/2012 4:18 PM, Chana Luntz wrote:
> [Quotes were taken from an Areivim conversation. -micha]
>
> RDB commenting on:
>>> I dont understand your statement "the hetter to walk in the street".
>>> Since when do we have or
>>> need a hetter to walk in the street. Is there some mitzva to stay
>>> locked up at home that requires us to obtain a hetter to walk in the street
> Answers:
>> I mean when there is peritzus in the street, which I assume the glasses
>> are a reaction to. Otherwise, of course there is no issue.
> I confess I agree with RDB here.
>
> In terms of the heter to walk the streets, this is all based on a gemora
> in Baba Basra 57b:
>