[Avodah] Women and tefillin

[garry]

On 7/12/2011 7:54 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:48:33PM -0700, garry wrote:
>> Also, the ancient ruling that we lack the kevana to wear tefillin except
>> when absolutely necessary was made regarding men.  Is there any
>> authority that modern women are similarly disqualified?  I don't think
>> this can be assumed, especially because women are on a higher  madrega
>> than we are.
> If you mean (as the last sentence implies) that one can't assume women
> would have a similar problem with kavanah, that distinction isn't made
> WRT Ashrei and Birkhas Avos. When they discuss no longer following
> chazal's pesaq about repeating Ashrei if "Poseiach es 'Yadekha'..." is
> said without kavanah, because we aren't likely to do much better the
> second time anyway, does anyone say that women /are/ likely?
Since we know that women's understanding and so forth are superior to 
men's, it seems tenuous to to discourage them from a practice solely by 
assuming that their kavana will be the same as men's, especially when 
the assumption is based entirely on silence in respect to kavana on a 
different matter.