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<DIV>"The question is what if the ONLY hiyyuv is a woman? Can she say
qaddish<BR>for a tzibbur?<BR><BR>The implications can be staggering!"<BR></DIV>
<DIV>In my shul, a man asked the rabbi a few years ago what should we do if
there was only a woman saying kaddish. He answered: "Don't talk and
answer amen yehey shmey rabbah." (Unfortunately, as our congregation has
aged, it's now rare to have only one person saying kaddish at any
service.) </DIV>
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<DIV>When my wife was saying kaddish, she wanted to daven mincha in another
local shul but didn't know what that shul's policy on women saying kaddish
was. She called the rabbi who told her: the policy is that a woman
can say kaddish only if a man is also saying kaddish. The second part of
the policy is that if a woman wants to say kaddish and there is no man saying
kaddish, the gabbai is responsible to make sure that a man also
says kaddish so the woman can say it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan</DIV></BODY></HTML>