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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Well let's take this idea to the logical extreme:
If our grandparents didn't come to Eretz Yisrael, does that mean that we
shouldn't?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Answer to your question and the above: You can't
compare their situation to ours. Women didn't have learning opportunities;
people couldn't come to Eretz Yisrael. So what we can learn from previous
generations regarding these questions is very limited.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Nothing was really stopping anyone from doing MA.
Therefore, that fact that they chose not to has significance for
us.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ben</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=eliturkel@gmail.com href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">Eli Turkel</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">and if the mother & grandmother couldn't
read hebrew and read tzena u-rena in yiddish<BR>and couldn't really daven then
it is proper it our age for the daughter to follow the<BR>minhag of her
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