“Rebellion” in the Talmud
I recently came across a discussion about music on the Omer, and the call for a general ban on music after the destruction of the Temple.
The excuses regarding recorded music are well known, but today it seems that everyone is making light of live instruments, even drinking wine, and the like.
The discussion brought up opinions from all kinds of jurists who qualify the prohibition and limit it to certain circumstances, and the idea of a ‘decree that the public cannot abide by’ was also raised.
One of the members referred to the words of the Maimonides in the Law of Mary, that a decree that the public cannot abide by is not null and void by itself, but rather the Sanhedrin must permit it, and until then, whoever does not abide by it is still a criminal (or in other words – if someone asks, they will tell him it is forbidden).
Then he claimed that if we are honest, we are simply doing against what is written in the Talmud. And we have no formal permission for this. Do you agree with that? This is a bit different from the “fast nicht” arguments that you hold, because here on the face of it there is no socially-substantive reason to repeal the prohibition.
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