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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">I believe this version of the story told by R’ S Mandel in Jewish Action</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">-n</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">ot
the “gotcha” version I’ve heard.<br>
</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">When a group of feminists visited him and demanded that he permit them to wear tallitot, he listened to them, showed he understood their reasoning, and proposed that there first be a trial
period during which they would wear colored cloaks as tallitot, but without tzitzit and without reciting a berachah. He asked them to note how they feel wearing them and to come back after two weeks and confer with them again. After two weeks, they reconvened,
and when the Rav asked these women how they felt, they told him how inspired they felt when wearing the cloaks. The Rav replied that that was excellent, that they should definitely continue wearing the cloaks and praying with kavannah, and that there was no
need to wear the tallitot with tzitzit that men wore. Most of the women accepted this response, because the Rav treated their question with genuine respect and listened to their grievances</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">.</span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:10pt;">KT<br>
Joel Rich</span></font></div>
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