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size=2>From: "Moshe Y. Gluck" <A
href="mailto:mgluck@gmail.com">mgluck@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>>>Not everyone
agrees that the Halachah has changed - one Rav I know is of the<BR>opinion that
while meritorious, there is no Chiyuv for women to hear<BR>Parashas Zachor, and
he thus refuses to allow the Sefer Torah to be taken<BR>out on Shabbos afternoon
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size=2>My husband thinks that women have a mitzva of zachor ("zachor es asher
asa lecha Amalek") but don't have to hear the parsha to be yotzei -- they are
yotzei by hearing the Megillah. When my kids were little I sometimes I
relied on that loophole. Also I don't remember anyone making a fuss about
girls having to be in shul for Parshas Zachor when I was a girl -- maybe that's
a chassidish vs litvish thing? In general, Litvaks seem to be expect more of
women but/and are also more text (vs mimetic) oriented. Anyway, my
memories, or lack of memories, seem to support what RZS said about this
only having become widespread in the last 30 years or so.
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