[Avodah] Women and TSBP [was: mayim achronim]

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> (Which I still don't think is a technical "eis la'asos". The CC
> also argues that the original rule of teaching only what they
> need to lead observant lives is extended beyond learning
> halakhah lemaaseh and the basics by the realia of their
> receiving a secular education. That's enough to justify the
> change without saying that observance of the whole trumps
> a single issur.)

This reminds me of a statement by R' Nosson Kaminecki that (a) we
pasken like Ben 'Azai regarding how appropriate it is to teach women
Torah, and paskening like R"E was a horaat shaah, and the CC's
positive disposition towards the Beit Yaakov movement only truly makes
sense if we assume the CC really held like Ben 'Azai. This, at that
time, the reasons for following R"E 'al pi horaat shaah had gone, so
we were to go back to the baseline din, which is that we do teach
women all of Torah.

RNK's statement can be heard here: http://tinyurl.com/kaminecki [YUTorah.org]

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