[Avodah] Do Women Need To Hear Eicha?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:34:12PM +0100, Chana Luntz wrote:
: RZS writes:
:> Af hein hayu be'otah pur`anut.  If there were a "chiyuv" on men then it
:> should logically apply to women too.

: This assumes that (a) the af hein b'oto hanes is a principle of logic that
: we can apply to circumstances other than those listed in the gemara and (b)
: that there exists a flipside principle of af hein hayu be'otah puranut.  

Or at least minhagically, women felt they ought to be there because women
went through it to and lemaaseh, enough have been going to Eikhah to create
such a minhag.

This isn't rabbinic legislation, where the logic is necessarily so
rigorous, nor necessarily the cause as opposed to post-facto validation
of existing practice.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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