[Avodah] Rav on Women's Ordination - Rema's rationales

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Chana Luntz wrote:
: What RYBS does appear to do, as per RGS's translation, is give two reasons
: for the Rema's position vis a vis women shochtim.  The first is that of the
: Shach, that the Rema is following the Maharik and the Agur, that while vis a
: vis a halacha, we say lo rainu aino raya, with a minhag, we say lo rainu
: yesh raya.
...
: Now if you think about it, these two reasons brought by RYBS in fact
: contradict.  Because the second reason is a reason based on halacha - ie
: that there is a Sifri, and the Rambam poskens like the Sifri and the Rema
: poskens like the Rambam.

I thought of RYBS's argument as being a mima nafshach... If you hold it's
a minhag, and therefore our not seeing any women shecht is proof that the
minhag is they don't, then ... and if you hold like the Rambam and the Ritva,
you get to the same place...

:-)BBii!
-Micha