[Avodah] mayim achronim

[Zev Sero]

On 23/12/2010 3:07 PM, Eli Turkel wrote:
>> My point in the Areivim thread was that when a woman does everything her
>> mother and grandmother did, then when she doesn't wash MA she has a
>> perfect excuse - her mother and grandmother didn't do it, so why should
>> she?

> and if the mother & grandmother couldn't read hebrew and read tzena u-rena in yiddish
> and couldn't really daven then it is proper it our age for the daughter to follow the
> minhag of her mothers

It's certainly proper to read Tzena-Rena.  And davening in any language
is equally kosher.  But what has that got to do with the topic?  No
learning is or was necessary to spill a bit of water over ones fingertips.
A woman who follows "torat imecha" is entitled to rely on the same
authority for not washing MA that her mother and grandmother relied on,
i.e. their grandmothers.   As RAS said, the best proof that it's not
required is that his mother didn't do it.

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