[Avodah] Fw: Partnership Minyanim by Aryeh and Dov Frimer

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:25:42PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> Herod?!  Surely the proof is from Shmaya and Avtalyon.  (And surely the
> exact same proof should suffice to justify a woman in such a position,
> if the public needs her as they needed Shmaya & Avtalyon.)

FWIW, RYBS asked R' Moshe Soloveitchik about how Shemaya veAvtalyon could
have been one of the zugos. RMS answered that he had asked his own father,
and R' Chaim answered that while they ran the Sanhedrin and voiced their
opinions, they didn't actually vote.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha