This is an interesting site...
The Serious Destructiveness Of Loud Amplification At Simachas.. A widespead culture of serious harm...
The far reaching damage caused by loudness...
Hearing and the Ear...
The Torah View Against Harming And Indifference..
On this site it said..
A frum ear doctor I interviewed said to me he regularly has patients come in who have ringing in the ears,
inner ear pain or hearing loss DUE TO HAVING BEEN TO A CHASUNA WHERE THE MUSIC WAS HORRIBLY LOUD.
With this thought I agree...
It is not worth even a risk of a lifetime of inner ear damage, going from doctor to doctor, desperately spending thousands on medicines,
suffering added impact from their side-effects, being required to wear ear plugs full time or under noisier circumstances,
having elaborate uncomfortable treatments (e.g. M.R.I., audiology tests, blood tests, E.N.G. [electronic middle-ear balance testing],
Auditory Brain Stem Response test, etc.) that generally don't help much or at all, and living a life of long-term or permanent suffering and heartache.
This Rabbi is tough.. I totally agree with him...
One of the four ear doctors I interviewed for this series said that inner ear structures are very delicate, sensitive and easily damaged.
Another doctor said that IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH EAR DAMAGE TO CAUSE VERY HARMFUL, PERMANENT CONSEQUENCES.
Go get them.. You tell it like it is....
"Decibel" is the measure with which loudness is measured.
If a human ear is exposed to a loudness of 100-110 decibels for a half hour, this already can do damage.
If the volume is 120-130 decibels, the ears are overwhelmed.
Their fragile structures can be traumatized and they can be severely damaged after even short exposure to high volume.
To put "100-110 decibels" into layman language, if your home stereo were at full volume, if a subway train went by at full speed,
or if your head were chained to an ambulance siren, sustained exposure to that level of sound for a short while can permanently damage your inner ears.
Professional music amplification can be 20 decibels louder than this
Yes... I totally agree with the Rabbi....
When are people going to learn to protect their hearing...
Cigarette and alcohol labels have warnings.
Perhaps we should have hosts add warning notices to their invitations, in all languages that pertain to their group (Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Russian, etc.),
that loud music amplification at their simcha can cause significant and permanent damage to ears.
Let people clearly know that the damage can be irreversible, non-treatable medically and can cause a life of genuine suffering.
You tell it like it is and this goes for all the loud blasting Christian Church sevices as well..
The Torah [Exodus 22:21] tells us to never pain a widow or orphan.
Rashi there tells us that a widow or orphan are only examples, and the verse is saying that we may NEVER HURT ANY ONE WITH ANY FORM OF VULNERABILITY OR WEAKNESS
Deuteronomy 13:5]. The gemora [Sota 14a] specifically ties this verse to our being obligated to behave with kindness and doing only good for others.
Sending more and more people (including those closest to us!) to ear doctors and causing potentially life-long, serious and irreversible suffering and damage is not kindness.
It is destruction.
We are a nation of builders and we build with GENUINE AND PURE KINDNESS, as the verse tells us, "Olam chesed yiboneh [the world is built by lovingkindness," Psalm 89:3].
Let us fulfill, "VoChai bohem [live by the Torah's laws," Leviticus 18:5] "and not die by the Torah's laws" [Yoma 85b].
Participating at a simcha is a mitzva, but not if doing so is detrimental.
Mitzvos are for doing good, not for harm.
This is a hugh site to read..
But this Rabbi is very informed...
Very impressive indeed as from what you have read above..
http://www.shemayisrael.com/rabbiforsythe/dangers/dangers.htmI give him a thumbs up
Expecially from those of us who have hyperacusis or tinnitus.
Well said..
