<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dov Kay</b> <<a href="mailto:dov_kay@hotmail.co.uk">dov_kay@hotmail.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I have just been learning OC, 315, where the MB and AhS both quote the Mordechai in Perek Kirah that one may erect a temporary partition between men and women when a drasha is given. This is evidence that:<br>
1 women attended droshos in the Mordechai's time and locality;<br>
2 there was felt to be a need for a mechitza at such a gathering (contra the R.YYW's comment that this was not the case in early 20th century Lita); and<br>
3 women perhaps did not attend shul or stood outside, or else why did he not refer to erection of a mechitza in a shul, espcially since shul services are more frequent than droshos.<br>
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Kol tuv<br>
Dov Kay </div></blockquote><div><br>Thre is a Gmar in the end of Kiddushun that CLAERLY rquires separate seating during Shabbas Afternon drashos. <br><br>That said, it ws to prevent co-mingling it does not addresseing SEEING women.
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