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?
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This is a nonsense decision, purely political. It will not endure.
There’s precedent in these sort of non-halachic decisions.
When rabbis say “we don’t do that” but give no rationale, this means the decision has no real halachic basis.
This is gut feeling, not law.
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There’s precedent in these sort of non-halachic decisions.
When rabbis say “we don’t do that” but give no rationale, this means the decision has no real halachic basis.
This is gut feeling, not law.
5/7
The Chief Rabbi and Nishmat train women to make decisions in Jewish Law. This is Semicha.
Open one field, all fields become open.
The Chief Rabbi is holding back a huge flood, half our community.
He may hold his line.
Après lui la déluge!
סופו לא להתקיים!
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Open one field, all fields become open.
The Chief Rabbi is holding back a huge flood, half our community.
He may hold his line.
Après lui la déluge!
סופו לא להתקיים!
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The only reason I can see for the sacking of Lindsey is that “we don’t do that.”
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The only reason I can see for the sacking of Lindsey is that “we don’t do that.”
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Point has been made to me that if she had failed she would presumably have been allowed to remain a teaching fellow at LSJS.
I see possible discrimination here.
I see possible discrimination here.
Men with another Semicha beside YCT get Chief Rabbinic approval as rabbis.
Is qualifying from YCT/Maharat the problem? Or is it the title?
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Is qualifying from YCT/Maharat the problem? Or is it the title?
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