[Avodah] mechitza [was: heter mechira produce]

[Zev Sero]

David Riceman wrote:
> Gershon Dubin wrote:
>>  Much more likely that women never even showed up in shul;  those few 
>> who did
>>
>> were probably in a separate room.
>>
> See Rama OH 88:1.

This is from a much later period.  In the Rema's time and place there
were women's galleries in shuls (though in many cases these were
practically separate rooms, from which it was difficult or impossible
to hear and see what was going on in the men's shul). 

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