<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Prof. Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llevine@stevens.edu" target="_blank">llevine@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br><font size="3">A surprising new halachic ruling issued by Orthodox rabbinical
organization Beit Hillel allows women, for the first time, to say the
Kaddish prayer in memory of their deceased parents.<br><br>
This article implies that this ruling is "revolutionary."
However, I know for a fact that Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine,
Z"L, former rov of the YI of Ave J, allowed women to say
kaddish daily at shachris provided that there was a man or men who also
saying kaddish. The women were, of course, behind a
mechitza.<br></font></div></blockquote><div>[SNIP] </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The next paragraph had this line.</div><div> </div></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"In the United States it's common – but in many synagogues in Israel,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> if a woman wants to say Kaddish she will be silenced.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">They even explain the reasoning. Most poskim follow the Chovos Yair who did not allow women to say kaddish even though he thought women saying kaddish would bring nachas ruach to the deceased. There are not too many teshuvos written on the topic & until Rav Yehuda Henkin wrote a piece in Hapardes, all were against women saying kaddish in shul. Rav Henkin says that the custom in Europe was for women to come into the men's section to say kaddish. Rav Henkin ruled that women should say kaddish from the women's section and a man should say the kaddish with her. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Rav Moshe Feinstein in Iggrot Moshe Or Chayim Part 5 #12 says the same thing as Rav Henkin regarding the custom in Europe. RYBS also says the same thing as Rav Henkin.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,'Arial (Hebrew)','David (Hebrew)','Courier New (Hebrew)';background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Saul</span></div>
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