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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Botton’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

um yeah i didn't hear the first part of your question which organizations did you say yeah yeah yeah so you know there is a there is a long history to this and obviously uh mixed dancing at least if it's not with your wife it's interesting question is there any what is the particular issue of dancing with my wife and company that's that's an interesting question but certainly to dance with a woman i'm not married with uh would certainly be azer uh would certainly be azer that is called nagiya shalhiba that is affectionate touching according to the rambam that is an issue the arisa according to the ramban that is an issue to rabbanan but whatever it would be dancing with someone other than your spouse is vaday uh rabanan but there is a bit of a history you know if you go back to the beginning of 20th century jewish life in america where orthodoxy was really on its last legs it was virtually dying all you had were the older european immigrants and were the older european immigrants and their children were not from their children mamish left everything so there was a movement that was started called the young israel movement right still that's the forerunner of the young israel synagogues and young israel wanted to create a modern version of orthodoxy in order to keep american youth within the torah framework and they did a lot of things they introduced singing a lot of congregational singing comes from the young israel movement uh in europe there was not such a minute to the kahal to sing even the khadodi was not actually

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