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Poll: do you listen to music during the 3 weeks?

No, because it’s a good way to remember that we don’t have our beis hamikdash.

36%

[ 35 ]

Yes, it lifts me up when I am feeling down.

18%

[ 18 ]

No, unless it’s music that won’t cause me to be in a happy mood.

[ 2 ]

No because I was raised to not listen to music growing up.

42%

[ 41 ]

Yes, music is my profession

[ 0 ]

Total Votes : 96

PeanutMama

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:31 pm

Do you listen to music during the 3 weeks?
What for?

Personally I struggle with it but working on it!!

Last edited by PeanutMama on Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

pause

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:33 pm

I voted the first option, but "no because I was raised not to" is true too.

PeanutMama

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:34 pm

pause wrote:

I voted the first option, but "no because I was raised not to" is true too.

Yeah I can’t edit it so 🙈 I guess you can count it as the same thing

BH Yom Yom

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:39 pm

I try not to but if my anxiety gets really bad and I need to ground myself/ distract from triggers then I sometimes listen to acappella.

zaq

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:44 pm

No, because that's the halacha.

mamma llama

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 2:58 pm

zaq wrote:

No, because that's the halacha.

That's not the halacha for everyone. I know families who have the minhag that it's permissible to listen to music during the 3 weeks.

Everyone should ask their own rav.

LovesHashem

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 4:18 pm

BH Yom Yom wrote:

I try not to but if my anxiety gets really bad and I need to ground myself/ distract from triggers then I sometimes listen to acappella.

Mental health comes first!

sunshine5

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 4:37 pm

mamma llama wrote:

That's not the halacha for everyone. I know families who have the minhag that it's permissible to listen to music during the 3 weeks.

Everyone should ask their own rav.

You sure your not confusing music during the 3 weeks with music during Sefira? Bc during Sefira it's rather minhag, some pp listen and make wedding until rosh chodesh Iyur. Some pp after lag boemer are totally OK listening. . I'm 99% sure 3 weeks has more to do with halacha then minhag.

Mama Bear

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 6:43 pm

I listen to acapella.

amother

Rose

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 6:45 pm

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Cheiny

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 8:28 pm

zaq wrote:

No, because that's the halacha.

That should have been the first option!

giselle

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 8:34 pm

Yes I listen to recorded music, but not live. No option for that.

mamma llama

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 8:40 pm

sunshine5 wrote:

No, they are permitted to listen to music during the 3 weeks and they definitely said it was their minhag.

amother

Teal

Sun, Jul 12 2020, 10:37 pm

I didn’t vote, because none of those options fit. We officially don’t listen to music during the 3 weeks (& during s’fira) but were told ‘osei melacha’ (people doing ‘work’) are allowed to. That includes housework, cooking and even driving according to our Rav, if music helps you to do what you need to do. In practice that means we have music on almost as much as we usually would although we try to be careful to stop it when we take a break. We also hold that acopella is no different (especially the modern ones that use sounds other than pure voice). The one exception we make to that is our teenager that listens to music at bedtime (and, yes, I know some hold that is an issue as well). She listens to accopella at night during s’fira & the 3 weeks.

amother

Mistyrose

Mon, Jul 13 2020, 2:38 am

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PinkFridge

Mon, Jul 13 2020, 10:10 am

Hashem_n_Farfel wrote:

Do you listen to music during the 3 weeks?
What for?

Personally I struggle with it but working on it!!

No, because it's halacha. (ETA: I just caught up on the thread and see I wasn't the first to say this. Great minds Wink

)
True, it helps me remember the churban but it's halacha.
Now, there are different psakim. All 3 weeks? Just the 9 days? Special dispensation for emotional needs? While exercising? That's all fine, but the point is, we live with an awareness these 3 weeks that we as a people are reexperiencing this point in time and iyH may we not complete the 3 weeks the same way we have the last 2000 years...

ETA: Struggle is good. Win or lose, it makes a statement that the object of the struggle is important and worth the struggle.
Apropos to the aseres yemei teshuva, I heard a great thought: Someone goes on a diet and no way is he going to touch that last piece of dessert cake in the fridge. No sirree. It's an hour and he hasn't touched it. 2 hours. 3. And then he eats it. Is he a loser? Is he hopeless? No. For 3 hours he exercised his no muscles! They really are getting stronger. The next time he's faced with this struggle, he might hold out longer. Or just take a sliver. There are glorious possibilities once we start struggling.

Blidar,,,

Wed, Jul 15 2020, 5:38 am

The Gadol Hador Paskened that individuals can listen to music during the three weeks..
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PinkFridge

Wed, Jul 15 2020, 7:29 am

Blidar,,, wrote:

The Gadol Hador Paskened that individuals can listen to music during the three weeks..
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Yes, this is for people in bidud, I.e. strict isolation quarantine, to keep up their spirits. As you said, individuals.

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