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<blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><<I stated on Areivim that it wasn't clear to me that it is possible for a<br>woman to receive a heter hora'ah. After all, hora'ah bifnei rabo requires<br>
a heter to begin with, teaching zil q'ri bei rav halakhah does not. It's<br>not simply open to anyone with ability. Given that, pesaq today still<br>devolves from beis din's initial lo sosur mikol asher yagidu lekha. So,<br>
is hora'ah open to those who aren't in principle qualified to become<br>dayanim? Or is it joining a shalsheles that they are choq-like simply<br>excluded from?<br><br>I am not trying to re-raise the broader issue; I'm really only curious<br>
about the one point. Has someone shown that hora'ah is indeed something<br>performed by anyone who is capable?>><br><br></blockquote>
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<div>The Birchei Yosef <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Choshen Mishpat Siman 7</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> si'if katan 12 </span>says explicitly it is OK. The Sefer HaChinuch effectively states likewise saying in Mitzvah 152 that:<br>
<br><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">"...The prohibition of coming into the temple drunk
in the time of the temple applies to men and women, and [refraining from]
ruling on halachic matters in any place and any time by males, and so with a
wise woman who is fitting to rule on halachic matters".<span style> </span></span><br><br></div><div>The Piskei Teshuva in Choshen Mishpat siman 7 si'if 5 quotes both the Birchei Yosef and the Sefer HaChinuch and relates it back to Devorah and (one of the) positions in Tosphos that what Devorah did was to teach the din the judges who actually ruled - something that, given that what she was teaching them was hardly settled din, they were the foremost scholars of the time, and they then relied upon her teaching has to be considered hora'ah.<br>
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<div>>Tir'u baTov!<br>>-Micha<br></div>
<div><br>Regards</div>
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<div>Chana</div>
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