CAN YOU HAVE MUSIC AT A RESTAURANT

the OU certifies restaurants and I'm sure there are restaurants that want to have ambiance and they want to have live music playing what's they'll use policy when certifying these establishments and how do they go about it this of course is an important question and most timely because as you said we'll learn himself to getting and it's a complicated issue actually if you look in the chuvas of the igrismoche of ramosha Feinstein's Italian you look in the truvis of the shave of the levy from avosens itself their understanding of the gemara is that one should never listen to any Music Live or taped when why when wine is being served and even maybe where wine isn't being served Yakov opinion is that because there was no such a thing as taped recorded music in the time of Ghazal so they he says that there's no reason to be mahmer to be strict about taped recorded music ever and that pretty much what everybody follows ravo's not adds that we live in a time when people have all sorts of pressure and music helps us get into the right mood and that could be a consideration to be lenient but one place with is no room for leniency is to have live music where wine is served unless it's a pseudos Mitzvah and therefore we here at the OU and we have this question almost every day just yesterday I met with a new restaurant that wants OU supervision and they want to be able to have live music not only do we tell them of course they could not have they could not have live music while if we're certifying them but even if they're having a Chevy Brakes in the restaurant but that party is not taking the entire restaurant they're only taking a part of the restaurant and they want to have live music but the rest of the guests who are sitting at the restaurant they're not at the party they're not at the same they just came teed out and then now that I have live music for any other questions comments suggestions that we could address by OU kosher staff please send them in we'll try to do our best to answer them