[Avodah] mechitza [was: heter mechira produce]

[T613K at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/7/2007 12:40:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gershon.dubin at juno.com writes:

From: _T613K at aol.com_ (mailto:T613K at aol.com)  
<<<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?>>> 
>>Much more likely that  women never even showed up in shul....<< 

Gershon
_gershon.dubin at juno.com_ (mailto:gershon.dubin at juno.com) 



>>>>>
If so, then you can hardly call mechitzos a "new minhag" as if we have  
become so much more fanatic and farfrumt than we were in the good old  days in der 
alter heim.  Building shuls with mechitzos so as to accomodate  female 
worshippers seems, if anything, pretty liberal and relaxed compared to  the option of 
not letting them in the building.
 

--Toby  Katz
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