<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The rabbi (Rav Shteinman) ruled that although the Torah does not prohibit</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">it, it was inappropriate, as a child's gender should remain the way God</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">created it. The rabbi added that in the discussed case, which involves a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">boy who will have to observe mitzvot in the future, it would be wrong to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">change his gender as part of a costume, as women have to observe less</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">mitzvot than men.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">see</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4498796,00.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4498796,00.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Note that Rama based on Mahari Mintz allows in general wearing a woman's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">outfit on Purim.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">While other (including MB) disagree this is based on "lo tilbash" applying</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">even when the purpose is merriment. RMF and the Steipler Rav both allowed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">young boys (below chincuh age) to wear girls outfits on Purim.  ROY who</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">disagrees bases it that parents should no allow young kids to do sins.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Rav Shteinman introduces a new element that women have less mitzvot than</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">men (note "lo tolbash" gows both ways). To me this sounds more as a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">chassidic drash and part of the chassidization (apologies to Rbn Katz on the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">word) of the litvishe world.</span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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