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a 1914 responsum, R. Salomon Carlebach (Rabbi of <SPAN lang=EN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN">Lübeck, Germany)</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN>
</SPAN>maintained that refraining from handshaking with women is merely a
laudable stringency, which can be set aside by <I>kevod ha-beriyot</I>; see: R.
Solomon Carlebach “<I>Mareh Mekomot leIssur Peri’at Rosh beIsha veDinei Pe’ah
Nochrit</I>,” <I>leDavid Tsvi</I> (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:State>, 5674), pp. 218-219. This seems to have
been the general position and practice of the German Orthodox Rabbinate at that
time; s<SPAN
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discussion in: Isaac Jacob Fuchs, <I>Halikhot Bat Yisrael</I>, Chap. 7, no. 14,
note 29; </SPAN><SPAN
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Samuel Jacob haLevi Haber, <I>Et Tsenu'im Hokhma</I>, II (Karnei Shomron, 5767),
sec. 14, p. 298-305</SPAN>. Similar positions are attributed to: R. Chaim Belin,
<I>Resp. Nishmat Hayyim</I>, sec. 135, no. 6; R. Elimelekh Bar Shaul, in a
letter cited by R. Samuel Katz, <I>Kedoshim Tihiyu</I> (Jerusalem: 5740) p.
227;<I> </I>R. Moshe Feinstein, cited by R. Zvi Lampel in consultation with R.
Reuven Feinstein – available online at <A
href="www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol15/v15n045.shtml#12"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-DECORATION: none; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; text-underline: none"><SPAN
style="mso-field-code: ' HYPERLINK 'www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol15/v15n045.shtml#11''"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">http://tinyurl.com/mpwf66</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A>; R.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik cited by R. Gil Student, available online at<SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">: <SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/n9eun3">http://tinyurl.com/n9eun3</A></SPAN></SPAN>; R.
Yaakov Kaminetzky, <I>Titen Emet leYaakov al haTur veShulkhan Arukh</I>, p. 405,
n. 4;<I> </I>R. Nathan Bulman, cited by his daughter Toby Katz <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>– available online at <SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><A
href="www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol15/v15n045.shtml#11"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://tinyurl.com/mpwf66</SPAN></A></SPAN>.
See also the related comments of; R. Yehuda Herzl Henkin, <I>haMa'ayan</I>, 18:4
(<I>Tammuz </I>5738), pp. 78-95, at p. 90 – reprinted in <I>Resp. Bnai
Vanim</I>, I, sec. 37; R. Yehuda Henkin, "Is Handshaking a Torah Violation,"
<I>Hakirah – The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, </I>vol. 4 (Winter
2007), pp. 115-120, at p. 119 – reprinted in R. Yehuda Henkin, <I>Understanding
Tzniut</I> (Jerusalem: Urim, 2008), Chap. 4, pp. 95-100; R. Yehuda Henkin,
"Letters to Editor: Handshaking," <I>Hakirah – The Flatbush Journal of Jewish
Law and Thought, </I>vol. 5 (Fall 2007), pp. 20-23; R. Asher Benzion Buchman,
"Letters to Editor: Handshaking," <I>Hakirah – The Flatbush Journal of Jewish
Law and Thought, </I>vol. 5 (Fall 2007), pp. 23-27; R. Elyakim Getsel Ellinson,
<I>Hatsne'a Lekhet – haIsha veHamitsvot, Sefer Sheni</I> (Jerusalem:
<I>Histadrut haTsiyonit haOlamit</I>: 5741), Chap. 2, no. 12, notes 96-97.
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