[Avodah] Women and tefillin
menucha
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Mon Jul 11 04:25:39 PDT 2011
The Targum Yonatan also puts tfillin into "kli gever"
menucha
Micha Berger wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:01:30AM +0000, Elazar M. Teitz wrote:
>: Indeed? Many women fulfill the mitzva of arba'a minim. How many of
>: them fulfill the mitzvos of tzitzis and t'fillin?
>
>In both of REMT's cases, there is actually strong reason for a woman
>/not/ to fulfill those particular mitzvos:
>
>Tzitzis are clothing, and once it wasn't in style for women to wear
>tzitzis, for them to do so would violate "beged ish" ("Lo yihyeh keli
>gever al ishah..." Dev 22:5)
>
>
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