[Avodah] mechitza [was: heter mechira produce]

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From: David Riceman <driceman at att.net>
>>I suspect this is  a sociological phenomenon rather than a halachic one.  
One analogue in  America is the elevation of mehitza in shul from a 
custom not even mentioned  in Shulhan Aruch to the fourteenth ikkar, 
which distinguishes observant Jews  from non-observant Jews. <<
 
>>>>>
Mechitza is only a "minhag"?  In Europe they didn't have mechitzos in  shul?  
Men and women sat together?  Or they sat separately but with no  physical 
separation?
 

--Toby  Katz
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