[Avodah] mechitza

[Zev Sero]

Michael Kopinsky wrote:
> On 10/9/07, *Zev Sero* <zev at sero.name <mailto:zev at sero.name>> wrote:

>> I don't understand this.  Even if there's no chiyuv, what's wrong with
>> taking out a sefer?  Even on stam a Wednesday, with no mitzvah
>> whatsoever, can't one take out a sefer torah just to learn chumash from
>> it? 

> To learn chumash, yes.  To hold a k'rias hatorah b'tzibbur, many poskim 
> hold not.

On what grounds?  At the very least, it *is* limmud hatorah, isn't it?
How does the presence of an audience make it worse?

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Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
                       	                          - Clarence Thomas