[Avodah] Halachah regarding pants for women

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 05:17:27PM -0400, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
> Here's some more discussion
> http://parsha.blogspot.com/2008/08/would-rashi-necessarily-condemn-pants.html

Since we're reviving old discussion, I believe it was Rn Chana Luntz
who raised this topic, for which I haven't heard a good answer (by my
own taste in defining "good").

The maqor for the problem of pisuq raglayim is the Torah's explanation
for the kevesh up to the mizbeiach. IOW, the problem in its origin is
with MEN wearing pants and climbing steps in public.

So, how it is mutar for those of us men who do not wear a lange rekel
(kapote, bekkishe, etc...) to wear pants? And, since the evidence is
that we do have a heter, why can't we assume the same heter would apply
to women? Why the need for a long blouse or outer skirt?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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