Last night, at a Chanukah concert at Binyani Haumah featuring Mordechai Shapiro, the mixed audience of attendees – mostly bochurim and girls – danced in the aisles, just feet from each other, in what some are calling a breach of the most basic boundaries of tznius.
Apart from the mixed seating in the concert hall and the subsequent dancing, the voices of girls singing from the audience could be heard across the hall.
Shapiro had traveled from the United States to sing at the event.
“Unfortunately,” he later acknowledged, “for a short time, there was dancing, but I could not discern what was taking place due to the stage lighting and the fact that the hall is so large.”
Shapiro said that he has asked that the event managers and the production company that accompany him to these concerts hold an urgent meeting to discuss how to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in the future.
WATCH:
{Matzav.com Israel}
Sure sign that some parents need to do a better job at chinuch.
This is not the first time. Here is from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDftpm52914
in Europe only maskilim had concerts and went to the theatre, in America who ever heard of an Adom Gadol going to a concert? These things are mamosh the Satan, they must be banned completely. These boys shouldve been in beis medrash learning with a gemara than jumping up and down.
When learning Gemara will be made as enjoyable and rewarding to them as the concert, then they will remain in the bais medrash. We are trying to fit a round peg into a square box.
Yavan is back! Mikem u’bachem! Hashem should save us from these ‘entertainers’.
Relax, man! I don’t see such an uproar regarding the repulsive hafganos that take place around mea sheariim and geula, calling ridden nazis.
This is worse. Undoubtedly worse.
Once you allow a Yid to walk his dog down to the Chupa (article on Matzav) and everyone just laughs it off, this mixed dancing pirtza wasn’t far behind. The world is not hefker.
I happen to like Mordechai Shapiro. I met him personally on numerous occasions. A first class mensch. I don’t think you can blame him for what took place. I blame the management, or lack their of, for what took place.
Nu nu. Let them have a few moments of enjoyment. With everything assur assur assur, this was bound to happen. We live in a generation where it seems that all our michanchim do is assur everything. If you don’t listen, you’re a oisvorf lowlife mitiruf who is going to burn in gehenom. You’ll never get a shidduch, etc…What a great uplifting chinuch message.
To an Average Joe with average yiras Shamayaim everything assur.
Huh??
u Jewish?
this is exactly the attitude of the yetzer hara, this is how Reform started, lets just “enjoy” Shabbos by doing it on Sunday and using fire. We cannot allow even a minor breach in our mesora as that will Chas Vshalom lead to more breaches. Do you know what Gedolim do for “enjoyment”?
When you have an event with Modern Orthodox young people in attendance, singing a Neo-Hasidic song (“geshmak to be a Yid”), it is not a great surprise that some started dancing like that. After all, such things are accepted, or are at least not considered as scandalous as in some Haredi circles.
Exactly, perfectly stated
Is this why you spent 25K to send your daughter to E.Y. for seminary? Keep her home & watch over her until she’s married.
(There are very frum seminary environments as well but be very selective & know your daughter before sending her)
and once shes married….?
beautiful
I see TWO girls in the isle…..
What happened is regrettable. We can possibly judge them favorably.
As long as it says on her shidduch resume that she went to seminary there, all is good.
how to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in the future? Hmmm… How about skip the whole “concert in Binyanei HaUma” thing altogether! When you have thousands upon thousands of boys and girls from all different backgrounds coming to one city with minimal supervision, an event like this- a pop star concert in a huge hall- something is bound to happen. I guarantee you that many if not most of the bachurim and girls there would never have gone to such an event in their hometown- es past nisht. But when you are far away, across the ocean from your parents, the lines of OK and inappropriate get very, very blurred to young teens with limited senses of responsibility. I agree with Haimy who said that one must know their daughter/son before sending them across the world to “learn”. (That’s not to say that they aren’t learning, but rather to suggest that there may be other things going on as well….)
As long as they eat only chalav yisroel and wear a white shirt, they’ll be fine.