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PatColo
31st August 2010, 08:32 PM
‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis (http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186154)

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
08/27/2010 02:45

Punishment for performance in front of "mixed audience."
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A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women.

His “judicial panel,” with Rabbi Ben Zion Mutsafi and another member, sentenced Erez Yechiel to 39 lashes in order to “rid him of his sins.”

In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped.

Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186154

Fortyone
6th September 2010, 06:12 AM
What was the crime? Dancing?

Phoenix
6th September 2010, 04:56 PM
That's leniency.

Some poor woman under Islam is being given 99 lashes, and THEN be stoned to death.

Joe King
7th September 2010, 05:37 AM
What was the crime? Dancing?

He "made" others sin by "making" them attend together and then "making" them dance together.


those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

So apparently he refused to do two seperate performances, or during his performance he openly encouraged dancing.

Or, he simply performed his show in such a manner that the people themselves wanted to attend and dance together.
So as a result of causing others to want to sin of their own free will, he is guilty of their sins himself and must be punished.