[Avodah] women and tefillin

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:44:21PM -0400, Joseph C. Kaplan wrote:
: IOW, if a woman was wearing a cape that was clearly made for, and worn
: by, women only such that it would be an issur for men to wear it, if
: it was altered to have four corners it would still be a women's garment
: unless she put tzitzit on it which would then transform it into a beged
: ish which neither she nor a man could wear? Sounds strange to me.

It would be, but not impossible.

You are assuming, though, that keli gever necessarily refers to the cape.
I mentioned plucking gray hairs to show that the concept is not limited
to whether a particular garment is mens' or women's.

So no, I'm not insisting that the cape is transformed into a keli gever,
just that wearing it that say is a violation of the issur if women
generally don't and men generally do.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha