[Avodah] women and tefillin

[Chana Luntz]

RMB writes:


> >We still have a pardigm gap.
>
> >Simlas ishah can be violated by dying one's hair, plucking, etc.. It is
> >not an issur cheftzah.
>
> >Wearing tzitzis, when such is only done by men, could well be a violation
> >of keli gever. I said nothing about the cloak in that statement.
>
> To slightly marry two threads together, the Sridei Eish (chelek 2 siman 41
in Bar Ilan, although I find that my hardcopy Sridei Eish differs from the
Bar Ilan location of varius teshuvos quite dramatically so it may be
elsewhere in the hardcopy versions) asks why the chachimim did not protest
Michal's use of tephilin on the basis of keli gever?  He answers that when
the kavana is l'shem mitzvah, there is no issue of keli gever, only when it
is l'kishut.  (I think others have similarly distinguished between noy and
toeles in matters of keli gever and weaponry, eg women in dangerous places
in Israel carrying weaponry and it being mutar l'shem toeles).

If you follow the Sridei Eish's distinction, then the cloak would be mutar
if a woman put on the tzitzis l'shem mitzvah, but assur if she was doing for
the sake of a fashion show (eg the fashion designer that deliberately
utilised "chassidik fashion" a few years ago on the catwalk, if that had
included tzitzis).


> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>
> regards


Chana
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