[Avodah] Tzeni'us and gender roles

[Joseph C. Kaplan]

RMB:
> Emphasizing one of a conflicting pair of values IS violating one for the
> sake of the other, a necessary sactifice.

I still don't agree.  When I have to me mechallel Shabbat to save a life I'm 
not violating the value of Shabbat; I'm choosing, as halacha tells me to, a 
different value.  (In this case, of course, I have no choice.)  But Judaism 
also requires someone to lead a community, teach Torah in public, read a 
ketuba under the chupah, serve on a shul or school board, lobby secular 
public officials on issues important to our community; Judaism can't exist 
without those roles being filled.  So when someone fills them they are not 
violating or sacrificing any more than driving to the hospital on Shabbat is 
a sacrifice or violation.

Joseph Kaplan