The cover:
An example of his thinking:
It is immodest for a Jewish girl to appear in the street with chewing gum in her mouth:-
even if it is not noticeable.
You are hereby warned.
^
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Immodesty of Chewing Gum
There is a new booklet out on the theme of female modesty. The author is anonymous although there are phone numbers for contact, a mailing address and some haskamot from Lakewood, et.
The cover:
An example of his thinking:
It is immodest for a Jewish girl to appear in the street with chewing gum in her mouth:-
even if it is not noticeable.
You are hereby warned.
^
The cover:
An example of his thinking:
It is immodest for a Jewish girl to appear in the street with chewing gum in her mouth:-
even if it is not noticeable.
You are hereby warned.
^
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I saw this book yesterday...could not believe it! thanks for bothering to read it for me, so now I dont have to :-)
Quite right!
No one should walk around with chewing gum in their mouths--men included--because it isn't dignified. Call to mind a gum-smacking woman--is the image one of refinement? I dunno, to me this seems pretty reasonable. Thanks for getting out the word. ;-)
we had this pamphlet in our shul for a few weeks now. It is worthy of mention that “sweetened ice and what they call ice cream” are also strictly forbidden,
ומכל-שכן ללקק קרח מתוק או לאכול מה שקורין גלידהThere is a workaround: only “sweetened ice” is forbidden; if the popsicle is artificially sweetened with Splenda or aspartame, it should be permissible and duly modest IMHO.
With utmost sincerity and Halachic greetings
Other oddities about this pamphlet: the text is dotted with footnote markers, but the actual footnotes are not printed, ostensibly for lack of space. Yet the last several pages in the pamphlet are devoted to reprinting a separate tract, supposedly because there was extra space available!
I wonder how many of those footnotes actually say the same thing the text cites them for...
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