[Avodah] Tznius and Gender Roles

[Zeliglaw at aol.com]

WADR to the prior posts and posters on this thread, one can find many  
definitions of roles that seem exclusionary that are based on function, as  
opposed to gender. The most simple and obvious cases would be that aYisrael  
cannot serve as a Levi and a Levi cannot serve as a Kohen. While a Zar can do  
certain acts that are not Avodah, once one enters the realm of Kehunah, 
there is  an Issur Zarus Afilu Bdieved. A Talmid Chacham, even a Mamzer is 
entitled  to more respect than a Kohen who is an Am HaAretz. The Mishnah in  
Kelim lists ten separate levels of Kedushah. There are many Psulei Edus for men  
in addition to women, who are granted a separate and special kulah in cases 
of  Agunos. Like it or not, separate but equal roles between the genders 
and even  intra-gender roles is one of the major fundamental precepts that 
divides  Halacha and, indeed. all of Orthodoxy, from the heterodox world.
 
The assumption that since the outside world has abolished or views the  
abolition of any gender differentiatons as desirable obviously requires a 
higher  level of education, Torah and secular, for any woman who chooses to or 
needs to  work anywhere, especially outside of her home, and even more  so in 
the secular world, but one can argue that that factor requires both  
adherence to Tznius at home and outside the home and that imititation of a  man's  
spiritual roles will not necessarily or even potentially enhance a  woman's 
spiritual growth. 
 
Steve Brizel
_Zeliglaw at aol.com_ (mailto:Zeliglaw at aol.com) 
 
 
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