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You cannot please all of the people all of the time, especially when dealing with the religious sensibilities of the residents of Bnei Brak, a town with the nation's highest population density, little crime and some of the most zealously Orthodox Jews in the world.
That is what New-Pharm, a drugstore chain owned by Rami Shavit, discovered this weekend.
On Saturday night, dozens of Bnei Brak residents converged on the store, which opened six months ago, and demanded that it close its doors due to the negative influence the store's cosmetics and perfume departments might have on the town's young people.[...]
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, especially when dealing with the religious sensibilities of the residents of Bnei Brak, a town with the nation's highest population density, little crime and some of the most zealously Orthodox Jews in the world.
That is what New-Pharm, a drugstore chain owned by Rami Shavit, discovered this weekend.
On Saturday night, dozens of Bnei Brak residents converged on the store, which opened six months ago, and demanded that it close its doors due to the negative influence the store's cosmetics and perfume departments might have on the town's young people.[...]
About the drugstore in Bnei Brak
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bhol.co.il/news_read.asp?id=13856&cat_id=1 notice that they claim that R Nissim Karelitz was not for the demo
So a single store's cosmetics and perfume departments is a real threat to the community.
ReplyDeleteOye vei vi shvach di Kehille iz...oder vus?
Another departure from Geonic Judaism into Christian asceticism.
ReplyDeleteGemara (Bava Kama 82a) records that among the ten Takanot enacted by the biblical Ezra was a requirement for salesmen to travel from town to town to supply perfume and fragrances to the women of each community.
and:
KETUBOT: CHAPTER 7: MISHNAH 2
One who restricts his wife by vow -- i.e., the woman takes a vow, and her husband confirms it, that she not adorn herself with a certain kind -- of adornment, i.e., that she avoid a certain type of perfume (Rashi). The Gemara explains that this falls into the category of vows that the husband may annul, since it involves "suffering." Or, it is a case in which she said, "May the joy of cohabitation with you be excluded from me if I use perfume," when it is a vow affecting marital relations; he must divorce her and give her her ketubah -- immediately.
Another departure from Geonic Judaism into Christian asceticism.
ReplyDeleteThe proofs you bring are pre-Geonic era, and aside from that Geonic Judaism has been dead for near a 1000 years.
Did it ever occur to you that this is a home grown version of asceticism, much like the Esenes and other forms of Talmudic asceticism that plagued Judaism long before the birth of Christianity?
Another departure from Geonic Judaism into Christian asceticism.
ReplyDeleteIt seems more like departure into Wahhabi Islam
Gemara (Bava Kama 82a) records that among the ten Takanot enacted by the biblical Ezra was a requirement for salesmen to travel from town to town to supply perfume and fragrances to the women of each community.
Ouch, I hope they will not resurrect the other takanos….
...this is a home grown version of asceticism, much like the Esenes and other forms of Talmudic asceticism that plagued Judaism long before the birth of Christianity?
ReplyDeleteMekubal, this is a great insight of what is going on and can explain many of the things going on