[Avodah] Women and kaddish

[Danny Schoemann]

From: Ben Waxman <ben1456 at zahav.net.il>

> Rav Ovadia has paskened that women can say kaddish for their parents
> if there are no sons to say it, however they shouldn't say it in a beit knesset.

Actually R' Shlomo Ganzfried paskened so almost 200 years ago in the KSA 26:20:

הבת אין לה לומר קדיש בבית הכנסת, אך יש אומרים שאם רוצים לעשות מנין
בביתה שתאמר שם הרשות בידם, ויש אומרים דגם זאת אין לעשות

"A daughter may not say Kaddish in shul, though some say that if they
want to make a Minyan in her home so she can recite it, they are
allowed to. Others forbid it."

I don't have a SA handy, but I suspect that RSG based this Halocho too
on the SA or it's commentators.

- Danny