[Avodah] Shitat haRav JB Soloveitchik on Women Making Kiddush for Community

[Esther and Aryeh Frimer]

[Delayed due to technical problems. -mi]

In note 12 of R. Michael Broyde's article "Further on women as prayer
leaders..." Judaism, Fall, 1993 , he writes:
    "Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik recounted, in a response to a halakhah
    l'ma'aseh question, in a public lecture at Yeshiva University on
    November 6, 1984, that a woman can -- without any hesitation --
    recite kiddush even for a large group of people (men and women)
    in any circumstance, and that this was completely permissible,
    (mutar le'hathila) since no minyan/quorum is required for this act and
    therefore the group is not considered a zibbur that need be concerned
    with its honor. For a contrary opinion see Mishnah Berurah 271:4;
    however, the position of Rabbi Soloveitchik it implicitly endorsed
    by Rabbi Neuwirth writing in Shemirat Shabbat Kehilkhata 47:6,
    who does not quote the limitation of Mishnah Berurah."

[We note parenthetically that R. Broyde seems to have erred on this point
since Rabbi Neuwirth does cite the Mishna Berura elsewhere in Shemirat
Shabbat Kehilkhata 51:9, note 24]

Rabbi Chaim (Howard) Jachter also cites the Rov to this effect
independently in his insightful comments (44.20 minutes into tape)
at http://www.etzchaimkgh.org/audio/sperber_debate.ram.

Has anyone seen the shita of the Rov cited anywhere else, or any halakhic
discussion regarding Women Making Kiddush for Community?

        Kol Tuv
        Aryeh Frimer (from home)