<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">R' Weider from YU wrote the following article about the halachik impermissibility of partnership minyanim. </font></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.yucommentator.org/2014/03/the-halakhic-status-of-partnership-minyanim/">http://www.yucommentator.org/2014/03/the-halakhic-status-of-partnership-minyanim/</a></span></li>

</ul></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">One of his main arguments is that "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px">Talmudic enactments retain binding authority regardless of the situational applicability of any stated rationale, unless explicitly stated otherwise."</span></font></div>

<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">How can this be reconciled with the following? </font></span></div>

<div><div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px"><a href="http://www.torahmusings.com/2007/02/blind-aliyah/">http://www.torahmusings.com/2007/02/blind-aliyah/</a></span><br>

</li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=1562">http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=1562</a></span><br></li><li><span style="line-height:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.joshyuter.com/2011/02/20/judaism/calling-a-blind-person-to-the-torah-and-its-implications-for-womens-aliyot/">http://www.joshyuter.com/2011/02/20/judaism/calling-a-blind-person-to-the-torah-and-its-implications-for-womens-aliyot/</a></span><br>

</li></ul></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If in Talmudic times blind or deaf people were unable to be called to the Torah, why would situational changes ("</font></span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:21px">Rema (</span><i style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:21px">Orach Chaim</i><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:21px"> 139:3) adds that nowadays, when we are lenient to call to the Torah even an ignoramus who cannot follow the reading, we also call blind men to the Torah") allow for them to be called?</span><br>

</div><div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:21px"><br></span></div><div>Kol Tuv,</div><div>Liron</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Liron Kopinsky</div>

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