[Avodah] Women and tefillin

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Jul 13 12:34:27 PDT 2011


On 13/07/2011 3:13 PM, garry wrote:
> On 7/13/2011 6:02 AM, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 12/07/2011 11:37 PM, garry wrote:
>>> Since we know that women's understanding and so forth are superior to men's,
>>
>> What is this "and so forth"? We know that women are (in principle and
>> on average) superior to men in binah, but inferior in chochmah and da'at.
>>
> Superiority in Binah was the only item I could readily find a reference for. I have read many times, though, that
> women are naturally more modest than men are (in connection with Kavod hatzibur, for example) and that
> they are on a higher madrega in general, hence requiring fewer rituals.

But what has that got to do with ability to concentrate, or to have a
guf naki?


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