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<font size=3>At 02:28 PM 2/26/2017, R Eli Turkel wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">RYL brought<br><br>
<<he job that requires more fortitude and indeed aggressiveness
fell to the<br>
man.>><br><br>
The question is how far we go with this. I have seen a psak of Rav<br>
Zilberstein that women are not allowed to drive a car. Among his
other<br>
reasoning is that driving a car is like going to war and women are
not<br>
allowed to go to battle !!<br>
i.e. similar to the above that aggressive driving is a man's
job.<br><br>
I wonder how many on this list really agree with this reasoning<br>
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WADR to Rabbi Zilberstein, whom I know nothing about, it is time
for him to move into the second half of the 20th century (at
least). In many cities outside of Brooklyn which do not have bus
transportation to take children to and from yeshiva, it is primarily the
mothers who drive the kids to and from school day in and day out.
And even in Brooklyn women commonly drive to various stores to do
shopping, some drive to work, etc. Aside from Satmar
and perhaps a few other similar chassidic groups, Orthodox females
in America drive cares.<br><br>
I know of one Bais Yaakov type school in Far Rockaway (TAG) that gives
driver education classes.<br><br>
Recall the Bais Yaakov teacher in EY who was fired because she got a
driver's license. See
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/h9ueg3u" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/h9ueg3u</a> To me it is unfathomable that this
happened. <br><br>
This is just one of many examples of the fact that Orthodoxy in EY is
drastically different from Orthodoxy in the US, and this is why I
have maintained that it is a huge mistake to ask rabbis in EY halachic
questions about situations in America. Unless one lives here,
one cannot be familiar with the milieu and evaluate things
properly.<br><br>
YL </font></body>
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