[Avodah] women reading megillah for men

[Micha Berger]

IIRC, RYBS's development of the concept had to do with the chiyuv on
men being midivrei  qabbalah, but there is a machloqes if a woman's
chiyuv is also MDQ or whether "af hein hayu be'oso haneis" is
derabbanan.

The Behag (quoted by Tos' Megillah 4a) says the problem is that women
are mechuyavos in shemi'ah, whereas men are mechuyavim in qeriah
(which can be fulfilled by listening, shomei'ah ke'oneh). I'm not sure
RYBS's is necessarily a contradictory opinion.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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