Jerusalem – Out of sight, out of mind is an adage that appears to have been taken very literally by popular Orthodox singer-songwriter Yonatan Razel of late.
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Footage emerged on Monday in which Razel is seen performing at a recent concert with black tape stuck across his eyes as he continues to sing and play the keyboard, so as to avoid looking at women dancing close to the stage as he played.
Jewish law prohibits men from watching women dance since it may sexually arouse them, so Razel came up with his innovative solution to keep his sexual desires firmly in check.
A formal response to the footage for the singer read “Yontan Razel’s face was uncovered for the entire performance. The part in which he is seen with his eyes covered happened for mere minutes, when women formed dance circles at the foot of the stage. This was his personal decision so as not to remain with uncovered eyes in front of the dancing women. Afterwards, he removed the covering and continued to perform.”
How about just not singing at the concert in the first place?
This is the pitfall of idiots
Love it!!
The Saudi/Israeli convergence continues apace.
Why not blacked-out sunglasses so it isn’t making such a scene?
מסכת סוטה
:דף כב
פרוש קיזאי
רש”י
People are getting crazier and crazier
And the risk of falling off the stage??? A tzaddik in peltz!
How about a Rav grow a pair and tell him to knock it off.
what a chillul charedi. this is extreme, taliban styled, bizarre that he randomly carries a masking tape around and an embarrassment to klal. it is no wonder that chilonim detest charedim
but let me get this straight, he removed it once they stopped dancing. and how, without looking, was he supposed to know when they did??
When there are “No Dancing around” he is still prohibited to look on them.
we have so many that look and look let there at least be a handful that are shomer..although there are better ways, nice that he didnt want to offend the woman dancing
I need to change my place of residence to Chelm. More & more insanity. BTW Matisyahu started off like this nutjob, & look at him today (actually, don’t, he’s disgusting.)
He should be g’bensht for doing the correct thing!!!
Maybe he was just showing off his mad skills of being able to play amazingly with tape on his eyes??
Does he have eye brows and eye lashes?…oy the pain when he pulls the tape off his eyes.
Yasher koach.Since when is it ok halchically for women to dance in public? Since Jews started trying to replace Torah with western “values”? No. It’s never been ok and it never will be. The Torah never changes. He did the right thing– and he’s very righteous because he did it even though he knew he’d get mocked for it in our low generation. Pleasing Hashem is obviously more important to him than pleasing goyim and Jews who want to be goyim. We need more Jewish men like him. Isis /Iran are at our door here in Israel… and everywhere else in the world… and we Jews are busy mocking a Jewish man who guards his eyes the way Hashem tells men to? Are we all laughing like its one big joke? Wake up, drop the western foolishness, do teshuva and take Hashem’s laws seriously, before terrible tragedy befalls us. G-d help us all.