[Avodah] Women's zimun

[Meir Shinnar]

RMB
> Looking at an example we are discussing on Areivim, zimun for women.
> (For a good survey, see RAZZ's
> <http://www.ou.org/publications/ja/5760fall/legal-ease.pdf>.) Your
> choices are: don't, may, and must -- all three of which have support.

> The formalist's answer would depend on whether he emphasizes Shas
> (must) or BY (may) or MB (ought not).

No one has brought any support from any classical source for don't -
only that it wasn't done - but without the leap that therefore it
shouldn't be done.

The MB never says it shouldn't be done - he brings down that the
minhag is not like the gra - who requires it.  Empirically he was
right - and as one who believes in the power of mimeticism, those who
follow their family's minhag of not saying don't have to change.
However, the leap that therefore one shouldn't (rather than that one
need not) change is just not there.....


Meir Shinnar