[Avodah] Do Women Need To Hear Eicha?

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=606

Rav Moshe Shternbuch: Do Women Need To Hear Eicha?

Reading Eicha is a major part of the aveilus of Tisha B'Av.  Rav 
Moshe Shternbuch says (2:250) that since women are Chayav in all the 
halachos of aveilus of Tisha B'Av, they are also required to hear 
Eicha. If they can not go to Shul they can say it sitting on the 
floor in the privacy of their own home.

Since reading Eicha is part of the mitzva of mourning the Bais 
HaMikdash it is important for both men and women to understand the 
general meaning of Eicha. If you just read it without any 
understanding you haven't accomplished the goal. Rav Shternbuch 
recommends to use a readily available translation. A woman who 
doesn't understand anything at all and does not have access to a 
translation, need not go through the motions of reading Eicha.

Just like the Halacha of Davening, if a woman is so busy with her 
family that she cannot find the time for Eicha she is patur.

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