Halacha position: Is it permissible to read Psalms in front of my wife?

Rabbi Shai Tahan was asked "Is it permissible to pray or even recite Psalms while the wife and daughters are in the room," and he responded extensively.

His full answer is inside

David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuva Israel

20/06/2022

Monday, 20 June 2022, 14:04 Updated: 14:26

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Many times in our daily lives halakhic questions arise and topical doubts arise.

Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Shaare Ezra Kollel and head of the Arazi Lebanon Teaching House, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in and out of the beit midrash.

And this time: Is it permissible to read Psalms in front of my wife and daughters?

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Hello Rabbi and thank you for the previous article that deals with the separation between women and men at weddings, restaurants and the like.

Following the article I had a question, am I allowed to pray in my house or even read Psalms while my wife and daughters are in the room or maybe I have a lilac for a separate room?

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Hello and thank you for reading the previous article and BH that this was helpful.

Here is a partition law learned from the Gam 'in the sukkah (na, b) that on the evening of a good day of a holiday they went down to the aid of women and installed a large repair there, etc.

Let Rabbanan: At first there were women on the inside and men on the outside.

And would come to recklessness, set up to have women sitting outside and men inside, and still be reckless.

Install Yahoo women sitting upstairs and men downstairs.

This is also what the Gam learned from the verse "And the land mourned for families" (Zechariah 12: 2), that it was forbidden to change anything in the Temple where it is written, "Everything is written by the hand of the Lord, the learned Ali" (Dha'a Kaach).

Therefore, the arbitrators wrote that this charge is from Dauriyta, and the Agram also proved (O.H. Pats only to the shoulders even though the heads of the women standing in the aid can be seen, and paved his way that charging a partition is not

Many of the arbitrators resented this method, most notably the Rebbe of Satmar (Divrei Yoel Kha'a S.I.). Women.

And here are some who understood that it is obligatory to give a partition even if a man prays in his house when his wife is there or at least to pray in a separate room, and learned yes from the words of the signer Sofer (Hum. C. Katz) et al: And nakedness when we happen to pray and during prayer, etc., and the reason for this is that we believe that every prayer or praise and confession that intervenes in that thought no thought even in his wife will rise in degrees before God will be blessed and accepted before him, and therefore we separate women from men in the synagogue before Themselves that they will not come to contemplation while praying and there will be a postponed prayer, etc. For the dictation of the family of David alone and their wives alone, and Mt.

And a letter forbidding to pray as well as saying words of praise and confession even before his wife some have learned that it is obligatory to pray in a room separately, except that the truth Torah through which two different laws are surely, and as follows.

It is true that contemplation inhibits desalination and even in his wife, but this is if he actually contemplates, but we are not afraid that he will contemplate his wife unless she is seen before him in an immodest way, but where there are foreign women surely there is a charge of making a partition faded.

And the charge in the law of the separation of his wife in which the Knesset spoke was said about the law of the synagogue as well as any place open for the entry of the many and not in the house of a man.

And what he wrote to aggravate the eulogy was because it is the same in every place open to many as a kind of synagogue or place of eulogy, but the house of a person who is not open to many is not forbidden to pray in the same room, and he deals with his prayer .

And these things are explicit in the words of the late Rabbi Feinstein, who wrote (Agram or H.H. A place that is not fixed for prayer and is not open to many, and such as in a groom's house that is not open to many but only to family members there is no need for a partition.

And appointed to the house of a man who is not a permanent place of prayer and is not open to many who has no partition charge and the daughters of the house can be in the room where he prays provided she does not pass before him and as we explained above.

But all this according to our Rabbi the undersigned scribe, but concludes the words of Maran HaSha and the following poskim who took it that it is permissible to pray in front of his wife if properly dressed in clothes covering her body, and there is no tapah revelation from covered places. And in the book Halacha Berura (C. A. S.K.Z.) he ruled:

And he learned this from the words of the disciples of Rabbeinu Yonah (Brachot Pg, page 17, 1 from the pages of the book) who cultivated a revelation that it is forbidden to read Kish against which we were precisely when looking at it, but in ignorance it is permissible.

And he wrote that Beit Yosef brought his words in silence, which means that he thanked him.

And the Prophet (C. 16: 6) wrote that it seems that in another woman anyone who looks is forbidden in the Qur'an, and even with a little finger, , Dai forbade even in sight a "

And if indeed his wife passed before him in immodest attire he would not take care of her but would distract him or close his eyes and Baha Segi, and as he wrote in the soul of a man (Rule 4: 1)): We are commanded in the Qur'an to be called naked, but because Demetzino is an ornamental thing in a woman as a commentator there, therefore the sages forbade, and the Lord is less nurturing.

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