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Mayer Twersky |
Rabbi Mayer Twersky is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University
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The discussion regarding women's tefilla groups has regrettablyfocused excessively on technical issues and legalities. It has beenframed by limited halakhic queries such as: may the participants forgo tefilla be-tsibbur to attend these groups? May menstruant women touch sifrei Torah? Undoubtedly such technical perspectives and narrow questions are necessary to ensure our compliance with all minutiae of halakha. Torah, however, consists not only of halakhic details, but also of halakhic values. Unfortunately the latter have been neglected in the discussion concerning women's tefilla groups. When halakha is fragmented and truncated in such a fashion, it can be neither interpreted nor implemented correctly.
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