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Glasses look to keep 'immodest' women out of sight
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Published: 09.08.12, 14:25
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1. Strange? Yes...Should it bother anyone? No
(08.09.12)
2. This Is How Weak The Religious Are
World Citizen ,   the world   (08.09.12)
You would think that they had enough faith in their G-d to keep them from wanting to look at a beautiful woman. The fact of the matter is that G-d wired this behaviour into men. At this very instant, on my computer screen, at the Ynet site, is an advertisement showing a beautiful blonde woman, in a yellow bikini, holding at surfboard at the beach. There are words in Hebrew,. I don't know what they say, neither do I care. I have seen this ad 10,00 times but I still look at that gorgeous woman and admire every inch of her body! G-d doesn't mind.
3. Let's just hope......
Mike Carmel ,   Rishon le Zion   (08.09.12)
......that these lunatics don't try driving a car when they are wearing those ridiculous contraptions.
4. Blinding intelligence
turning a blind eye ,   The good part of tow   (08.09.12)
Great idea. Seriously. Only problem is that it will filter out transvestites. But I'm sure those brilliant holy men will figure out a patch (get it, 'patch').
5. Necessity is the mother of invention..
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (08.09.12)
Oh,i grant that glasses of wine blur the vision too...but isn t nearly as funny.
6. Another commandment of the Torah that only haredim
Abe   (08.09.12)
seem to fulfill. The commandment of Velo Taturu Acharei Levavchem Veacharei Eineichem, "And do not stray after your heart and after your eyes" (Bamidbar 15:39) is a mitzvah like keeping Shabbat but apparently it's ony haredim who keep it.
7. Religion=Big business. Lookalike hi-tec NAUGHTY GLASSES next
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (08.09.12)
8. I remember years ago the ads for x-ray
jason white ,   afula, israel   (08.09.12)
glasses that was sold on the back pages of comic books. They said you can see through people's clothes. Why do these hara-dim (men?)hate women so much? Women are humans also.
9. Blinders for the dark horses,
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (08.09.12)
what will happen when they will mistake a telephone pole for a pretty girl, will the kick the pole or embrase it ?.
10. r they driving cars with these on?
(08.09.12)
11. Better this way
New Jersey   (08.09.12)
Fine, if chareidim don't want to see women, it's better this way, since they're not forcing their beliefs on other women.
12. They're already blind at how they harm the country
David ,   Israel   (08.09.12)
Why do they need glasses to blind them even more? Oh yeah so they can suck the country even more to pay their health bills at fixing their eyes
13. Viznitzer Rebbe ztl
Joseph ,   London UK   (08.09.12)
Whenever the late Visnitzer Rebbe ztl went out into the street he closed his eyes and a Hasid guided him so he shoudn't look at anything immodest. What used to be acceptable for Gedolei HaDor has now become almost the norm. As posek HaDor the Chofetz Chaim wore both types of tefillin and didn'y brock on Pesach, but said his family should. Exotic stringencies are becoming normal -- for better or worse.
14. Liberate Haredi women
Elisha   (08.09.12)
Mothers in the haredi cultic community should take their children and run. Hide them, assist them so that no child should grow up in such a depraved environment. This is a sickness.
15. Really, are their minds really so weak they cannot control
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (08.09.12)
their thoughts after so much study of Torah? I would have thought that with so much study they would have the strength of a lion, not the weakness of a worm. They seek to close the street to women and ban them from buses so they can claim to be weak when Hashem SHOULD have made them strong from Torah study. Excuses, excuses to discriminate, to dominate, be more exclusive than, to show off, to say that look at me I am more holy than you because I am more Taliban than you, well I just don't buy it because they are not more kind, not more respectful, not more G-d like, just more hateful.
16. When you can't comprehend your own idiocy, that's a sign you
tom ,   tel aviv   (08.09.12)
have reached an impressive level on the Ladder of Religious Lunacy! Keep on, frumme bros....
17. For the love of God . . .
nibor ,   israel   (08.09.12)
this suppressed, ridiculous, insane behavior just further promotes perversion and pornography by exaggerating the natural.
18. How equelateral...
Orly ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.09.12)
... and equestarian!
19. Most good women are disgusted by scantily clad females
Jake ,   USA   (08.09.12)
They just wouldn't dare admit it, for fear of being branded a radical, anti-feminist, pro-misogynist, backward medieval wench.
20. they should just cast out their eyes & b done with it!
(08.10.12)
21. Blinders work for horses that are lustful without them, too.
Rivkah   (08.10.12)
Job in the Holy Scriptures made a covenant with his eyes not to look upon a maid. The sight of the eye is where adultery begins that spreads to the heart and then to the actions of a person. Women should dress modestly to please the Lord and to help males who are trying to walk the narrow path, the old path that the Prophet Jeremiah said is the good way. Women should ask themselves if they are dressing to please the Lord and if not, then change so that they are. We are His creation and we are not here to please ourselves but to please the Lord.
22. stupid reporting
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (08.10.12)
let us not believe everything that we read. I am in Meah Shariim 2-3 times a week and never see such stupidity. Perhaps some one did advertise them, although no one that I know there knows anything about it. PS: I am FROM LA, I live in Jerusalem.
23. Don't worry! They take 'em off to watch porn!
Israeili Jew ,   Israel   (08.10.12)
24. HILARIOUS! RIDICULOUS!
sharon ,   nyc, usa   (08.10.12)
These guys are utterly obsessive about the female form. Don't they have anything else to do with their time. Maybe if they spent MORE time with women, they'd stop acting like 12 year old boys around them.
25. This is already a sick joke!!!!!!!!!!
Erika ,   Israel   (08.10.12)
They should move to an abandoned island,where they cant see others,but their own kind....... :D
26. Didn't they ever hear of...
Kika ,   TA   (08.10.12)
a moving neck and EYELIDS??? They're free and built-in by G-d himself!
27. So pathetic
jan ,   Jerusalem   (08.10.12)
So we have our extremists too. Baruch Hashem the numbers are not many. They are harmful to woman and the State, but overall non-violent. That's why it's not fair to compare them to Taliban. As Torah observant Jews, we can feel sorry for them. Only Hashem knows the damage they will do to their eyes. When I see them walking around facing the buildings so they don't see women I feel pity, for they may think they are doing something Holy, but are totally missing the mark of the spirit of the law in their exteremism. We are a small nation and need as many sane people as possible-this behavior seems insane.
28. Please g send me glasses to hide Haredim frm my view forever
Michael ,   California, USA   (08.10.12)
29. Good invention!
Shimon ,   Cincinnati, USA   (08.10.12)
If you act like a horse's arse, why not wear horse blinders?
30. Orthodox Jewish Men
Michael fox ,   Sacramento, USA   (08.10.12)
Who nu? Who cares?
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