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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Aryeh Herzig <guraryeh@gmail.com><BR>"<BR><BR>>> I
have a theory.<BR><BR>Yerushalmi Berachot says we say Havdallah in Chonen Hadaat
because : Im Ein<BR>Daath Havdallah Minayin". Since Nashim Daatan Kaloth
they can not make<BR>havdallah. ( Maariv is reshus so ladies don't daven Maariv
anyway so it is<BR>only relevant on Havdallah al HaKos.)<BR><BR>Does this theory
make sense? <<<BR><BR>Aryeh Herzig<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>No it does not. "Nashim daatan kalos" does not mean that women have
NO daas!</DIV>
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<DIV>Daas is basic intelligence, including the ability to make distinctions
(e.g., between day and night, between Shabbos and weekdays, between kodesh and
chol). </DIV>
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<DIV>"Nashim daatan kalos" means either that women are easily persuaded, or that
they are easily misled, or that they are easily seduced -- but not that they
have no daas at all and are unable to tell the difference between Shabbos and
motzai Shabbos!</DIV>
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<DIV>Your theory would seem to imply that women are not obligated in havdallah,
and while there does seem to be some such opinion, the consensus is that they
are obligated. Even according to the opinion that women are not obligated,
I can't imagine anyone saying the reason is that women have no daas and can't
make the necessary distinctions. </DIV>
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<DIV>After all, regardless of whether they make (or hear) havdallah or not,
women are still obligated to keep Shabbos. So I guess they have enough
daas to know when it is Shabbos and when it isn't.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><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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