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“It is written that “one relies upon women,” so it is not foreign to Judaism if this “support” is broadened from the narrow,”

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Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?
Contexte: It is written that “one relies upon women,” so it is not foreign to Judaism if this “support” is broadened from the narrow, permitted range into a larger one of pasken, to which in principle there is no objection.

“God planted in our heart skills and a vocation without asking about gender. Therefore, it is the duty of men and women alike to work and create according to the skills given by God.”

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C.-V.-Zeitung, June 23, 1938
Contexte: If I confess what motivated me, a woman, to become a rabbi, two things come to mind. My belief in God’s calling and my love of humans. God planted in our heart skills and a vocation without asking about gender. Therefore, it is the duty of men and women alike to work and create according to the skills given by God.

“How beneficial it could be to have a woman in the rabbinic role”

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Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?
Contexte: How beneficial it could be to have a woman in the rabbinic role to reclaim the lost meaning of tsni’ut by example and through teaching.

“Many decrees of our sages were withdrawn, as we earlier have seen; particularly concerning this kind of tsni’ut, they lose much of their severity.”

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Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?

“Their entire work as household “supervisor” is pasken. This is possible for in this area she knows something: no one else can represent her and therefore she had the chance to demonstrate in practice that she can summon the requisite understanding and seriousness for such matters.”

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Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?

“But when it comes to a relaxing of the religious ban in the loosest sense of the word, in which the justification of restricted women from certain religious responsibilities and actions, were quite fitting and earn the highest respect – however, today, where woman is clearly present in public life and accomplishes practical tasks in cooperation with men, contact has become casual.”

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Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?