[Avodah] Women and kaddish

[Chana]

> R'nCL wrote:
> > Now it is indeed possible that what
> > the Teshuva Me'ahava is talking about is a shul
> > without a mechitza (he is talking about the shul
> > in Prague, and while that does indeed have a
> > women's section, it is so walled off from the
> > men's section that it is hard to see it being
> > described as part of the shul proper and I
> > imagine the minor daughters were being brought
> > into the main shul
> 
> You haven't been there, have you? The Altneue Shul does not have any
> women's section. It has windows onto an alley, where the women could
> come. And the windows are tiny, while the walls are thick.

Actually we were in Prague once for Shabbas, and I was basing this on my memory of the shul we davened in that Shabbas.  But come to think of it, I think it was not the Altneue Shul, but another one that was actually open for services, and it was probably the Altneue Shul that he was referring to.

> My tangential remark of course makes your argument on how to appraise
> the Theshuvot meAhavah all the more powerful.

> Arie Folger,

Regards

Chana