[Avodah] women leaning at seder

[Daniel M. Israel]

Quoting Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com>:
> Ashkenazi women usually don't lean at the seder based on the Raaviya.
> Since we don't pasken like the Raaviya does this mean that women should lean
> lechatchila and only bideved they rely on the Raaviya? My personal
> observations are that women do not lean lechatchila - what is the  
> justification?

I will, bli neder, try to find my source when I get home, but my  
recollection is that in fact we are not consistent: we say that women  
rely on the shita of the Raaviya, even though we don't pasken that way  
for men.  Of course, this only comes up because we also hold that all  
women today are chashuvah, otherwise they would be patur anyway.

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Daniel M. Israel
daniel at cornell.edu