[Avodah] birkhat hagomel & women

[Eli Turkel]

A  question geared more towards the charedi elements on the list.

Everyone seems to agree that women are obligated in birkhat hagomel equally
with men.
In particularly a woman after childbirth should recite birkhat hagomel.
In the past this created a problem as woman rarely went into public areas
and birkhat hagomel
requires a minyan. Also in the past the mothers were still in the hospital
at the time of the brit milah.
A number of suggestions were made to deal with this issue

1) MB says that a woman can recite birkhat hagomel in front of 10other
women. To the best ofmy limited knowledge this was never accepted
2) The husband said the bracha for his wife.Many objected because it is the
woman's obligation.
3) The woman said birkhat hagomel from the women's section
4) Women in practice never said birkhat hagomel.

In my personal experience in my youth option #4 was the standard.
Today in most MO circles option #3 or a similar one where the woman says
birkhat hagomel at some gathering at home where there is a minyan.
This is based on the fact that in fact in todays MO circles women
frequently come to shul all year round and also men and women mix up
at get togethers.

Question:What is the current practice in charedi circles? Especially in
some chassidic circles women still do not usually come to shul and
do not mix with men at parties.

ps
I recently spent 2 shabbatot in Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv. There seemed
to be numerous Gerrer chassidim at the minyan (hopefully for birth of
children).
Each times some women recited birkhat hagomel. Because of the mechitza I
could not tell if these were MO women or Gerrer chassidim women.



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Eli Turkel
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