Sunday Lite Hukum Agama Yahudi : Gender Separation in Judaism

 

The following is a very short post about Gender Separation in Judaism. The sources (websites) are provided if you wish to do further reading.

1.  Men and women inside a room with the closed door is a sexual event

• When a man and woman are together in a room, and the door closes, that is a sexual event. 
• Should men and women shake hands? Should it be seen as an intimate gesture?  Hopefully, it should.

Excerpted from an article by Rabbi Manis Friedman     

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3246/jewish/Why-Is-Torah-Law-So-Restrictive-of-Contact-Between-the-Genders.htm

2.  In Judaism, especially in Orthodox Judaism, there are a number of settings in which men and women are kept separate in order to conform with various elements of HALAKHA and to prevent men and women from mingling.

There are a variety of reasons in Judaism that are used to justify gender separation to varying degrees.

In Pirkei Avot 1:5, Yosi ben Yochanan says that a man who spends too much time talking to women, even his wife, neglects the study of Torah and will inherit 'gehinnom' (JAHANAM).

Chapter 152 of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch details a series of laws forbidding interaction between persons of the opposite sex who are not married or closely related.

Some of the prohibitions include negiah (physical contact), yichud (isolation with members of the opposite sex).

Part 2 Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Linear Translation by Yona Newman© 1999-201
Prohibition against being alone with or familiarity towards women Ch. 152:1-17

Sumber :

https://web.archive.org/web/20160324041831/http://yonanewman.org/kizzur/kizzur152.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_separation_in_Judaism

My comments :  The Jewish people say that Judaism is over 3000 years old. Some say closer to 4,000 years old.  Christianity is 2021 years old.  Islam is 1443 years old (by the Arabic calendar which has 354 days in a year).

Just some religious trivia.