[Avodah] Kaddish with mixed seating

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:52pm EDT, RnTK wrote:
: From: Kaganoff via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
:> We assume that Kaddish is a Devar she-Bikdusha and requires a minyan
:> to be recited.

:> We require separate seating for a Devar she-Bikdusha.

: You see something similar when people make an ad hoc minyan at a wedding 
: (or an airport lounge). They don't put up a mechitza...

Slight topic change. You can have separate seating (or locations in general)
without a mechitzah.

I believe that minyanim were held at the kotel even when the Ottomans didn't
let us put up a mechitzah by separating the genders even without one. I
see R YH Henkin (Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues, pg 124
<https://books.google.com/books?id=1QAZVzTJz2MC&lpg=PA124&pg=PA124>)
rejects the hava amina that mechitzah is only for an established shul. He
requires a mechitzah, not just separate seating at a temporary location
for davening. While a minyan is there, the laws of mara miqdash apply. I
do not whether he would advised the yishuv hayashan not to daven at
the kotel.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

Cc: RYHH

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