[Avodah] mayim achronim

[Ben Waxman]

Well let's take this idea to the logical extreme: If our grandparents didn't come to Eretz Yisrael, does that mean that we shouldn't?

Answer to your question and the above: You can't compare their situation to ours. Women didn't have learning opportunities; people couldn't come to Eretz Yisrael. So what we can learn from previous generations regarding these questions is very limited.

Nothing was really stopping anyone from doing MA. Therefore, that fact that they chose not to has significance for us.

Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eli Turkel 
  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
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