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Partition between men and women

שו”תCategory: HalachaPartition between men and women
asked 8 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
I don’t understand how the rabbi allows mixed prayer!?
Gam’ Meforshat (Sukkah) Chapter Five, Page 52
“…Rav said: Read I will forget and teach (Zechariah 12) and the land will mourn families, families alone, the family of the House of David alone, and their wives alone.” They said: And aren’t these things easy and serious? And what about the future – when they are engaged in mourning and the evil inclination does not control them – the Torah said men alone and women alone, now that they are engaged in joy and the evil inclination controls them – all the more so.”
Does the rabbi think that it is not possible to learn KV from the eulogy for a synagogue!? These are outrageous words.
(This is of course still before Maimonides, but I know that you sometimes disagree with the first ones, so it’s a shame to bring them here.)


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
First of all, I don’t remember allowing it. What I wrote is that this prohibition has no real source. The “Great Correction” (which I mentioned in my remarks) is not presented in the Gemara as a halakhic source, but rather as a description of an event that occurred that was appropriate for its place and time. Where do the poskim cite all of this (Rambam in Hala Shofar 58:12 cites this as a description of what happened in the Temple and nothing else)? What is presented in this way is not a binding law, but at most a guideline that must be examined according to the place, time, and circumstances. And what cannot be learned from there is not because of the difference between a eulogy and a biyachn, but because these are matters of legend and descriptions and not halakhic instructions. Even in eulogies, there is no halakhic need to separate, and so is the case with any other matter.

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