Template:Listening to Music during Sefira
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Listening to music
- It is forbidden to listen to music during the Sefira [1] Some poskim say that even if it's not live music, [2] and this practice should be kept until at least the 34th of the Omer. [3] Some poskim even prohibit listening to a Capella music. [4]
- According to some poskim slow music that would not lead to dancing such as slow classical music can be listened to. [5]
- If not listening to recorded music will result in depression, even the stringent authorities would permit it. [6]
- If one is reliant on playing live music to make an income, he is permitted to. [7]
- One can listen to music on the 33rd of the omer at night even according to sepharadim. [8]
- ↑ Iggerot Moshe OC 1:166, 2:137, Minhag Yisrael Torah 493:8, Aruch Hashulchan 493:2, Yechave Daat 3:30 based on a Magen Avraham that prohibits dancing during sefira because the two come together. Rav Mordechai Willig quoted in http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735746/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Music_During_Sefira says that music is not necessarily forbidden, the prohition was only placed on things that lead to excessibe joy, which music doesn't necessarily accomplish.
- ↑ Az Nidberu 8:58, Iggerot Moshe OC 1:167, Tzitz Eliezer 15:33, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 434, Maamar Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Sefirat Haomer #40. Chelkat Yaakov 1:62 argues that a device which didn't exist at the time of the decree cannot be included. In his article at [[1]] Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz says that this argument can only be made for music in general, but during sefira this would not apply because there was never a formal ban placed on music specifically during sefira. See http://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Listening_to_Music for the discussion about music during the year.
- ↑ Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434), Maamer Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Sefirat HaOmer #40),
- ↑ Shevet Halevi 8:127, Salmat Chaim 4:21. see http://matzav.com/p%E2%80%99sak-from-rav-yisroel-belsky-and-rav-shlomo-miller-on-acappella-music-during-sefirah-2 that Rav Yisrael Belsky and Rav Shlomo Miller differentiate between different types of a cappella, only permitting choirs which simply sound like a group of people singing and nothing more. Rav Binyamin Silber in Az Nidberu 8:58 discussing music during the year says that a recorded voice is considered like an instrument.
- ↑ http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735746/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Music_During_Sefira quotes Sefer Eleh Heim Moadai quoting Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg and Rav Eliyahu Schlesinger.
- ↑ Hilchot Chag B’chag p.63, Halichot Shlomo, Moadim 2:11:14.
- ↑ Iggerot Moshe OC 3:87.
- ↑ Chazon Ovadia Yom Tov page 258
