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The weird argument over #womenrabbis in Orthodoxy, particularly @LSJS_Hendon.
They knew Lindsey T-G was studying for three years. If yeshivat Maharat were treif, they couldn’t have allowed her to continue to teach.
She taught there!
They knew she was learning to be a rabba…
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They knew Lindsey T-G was studying for three years. If yeshivat Maharat were treif, they couldn’t have allowed her to continue to teach.
She taught there!
They knew she was learning to be a rabba…
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If that course of study were prohibited, they should have sacked her there and then. They didn’t.
This 👆🏼 indicates that studying at Yeshivat Maharat for the rabbinate is not prohibited.
They sacked Lindsey TG for passing semicha exam.
They disagree only w the qualification.
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This 👆🏼 indicates that studying at Yeshivat Maharat for the rabbinate is not prohibited.
They sacked Lindsey TG for passing semicha exam.
They disagree only w the qualification.
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Yet they have their own qualifications themselves, for women.
Are they saying that they disagree w the Hashkafa (outlook) of Yeshivat Maharat?
Or the title?
Is it the status?
If a learned woman can pasken on one aspect of halacha, which aspect can she •not•?
Why?
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Are they saying that they disagree w the Hashkafa (outlook) of Yeshivat Maharat?
Or the title?
Is it the status?
If a learned woman can pasken on one aspect of halacha, which aspect can she •not•?
Why?
3/7
