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<DIV>In a message dated 6/23/2011, llevine@stevens.edu writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From <A title=http://tinyurl.com/6yyq2r2 href="http://tinyurl.com/6yyq2r2" eudora="autourl">http://tinyurl.com/6yyq2r2</A><BR><BR><FONT size=3>The gemara
(Shabbos 10) states that a person cannot daven without a gartel (belt).
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<DIV> I learned in a ladies' shiur once that this applies to women as well
as men and it means that you should have /something/ separating your upper body
from your lower body when you daven or even when you make a bracha. The
waist-band of a man's pants would count, even underwear counts. The
shiur-lady, who IIRC was my LaMaze instructor, said if you're in the hospital
after you just had a baby, and you want to make a bracha, you should have
on a houserobe with a belt or a skirt or a half-slip or even underwear with
a band at the waist. You shouldn't make a bracha wearing only a
hospital gown with nothing underneath it. That's what she said
anyway.
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><STRONG>--Toby Katz<BR>================</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________
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