[Avodah] Maharat

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

Yes! But on the other hand, most of us also live in an "outside world" that is highly egalitarian. I think many of us, perhaps without conscious thought, have an egalitarian relationship with our spouse that would have been very rare a few generations ago. We aren't going to give up voting, or having our own bank accounts, or attending top universities, or entering just about whatever profession we like (as long as it isn't rabbi, sofer, chazan, etc...). And I don't think it is wrong for those changes in the experiences of women and couples and families and communities to affect religious practice, to move us in a somewhat more egalitarian direction WITHIN what is halachically permitted.
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Would it be correct to say that the general case of this argument is that as long as it can be argued that something is halachically permitted (which many seem to define  as not totally halachically forbidden by r’mb’s black letter law), then we can accept it without asking whether HKB”H prefers it?  If the answer is no but he does prefer it (for all or subgroup is another question), then why do we spend so much of the debate on black letter law?
KT
Joel Rich (full disclosure-kach mkublani mbeit avi abba-not everything that is permitted to you should be done)
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