Comments on: UPDATED: RCA Resolution Says Women Can’t Be Ordained As Rabbis

By: oy vey kids these days

oy vey kids these days — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:43:08 +0000

#15 – why yeihoreg v’al yaavor? did he explain why so strict?

Rav Schachter explained that even the smallest infraction can become “yehareg ve’al ya’avor” – even how you tie your shoe – if it is in the context of “she’as hashmad” – a time when Jews are being persecuted for keeping Judaism, even down to the smallest detail like how Jews tie their shoes. Rav Soloveitchik applied this concept to what he saw as a she’as hashmad in the and ‘50’s and ‘60’s, when the Conservative and Reform movements’ popularity in Jewish circles created an atmosphere of pressure on Orthodox Jews to compromise their halacha and conform to Reform and Conservative styles of “Judaism”. Thus, even davening in a Reform or Conservative synagogue, with mixed seating and other issurim, while not normally seen as a central violation meriting “yehareg ve’al ya’avor”, in the context of the social pressures and climate of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s were classified by the Rav as “yehareg ve’al ya’avor”.

By: pl0ni

pl0ni — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:51:49 +0000

#11 charliehall The semicha mentioned in the gemarra is NOT the same as the semicha given today. Our batei din are not “semoochim” in the true meaning of the term as the gemara defines it. That is part of the reason why we can no longer judge certain types of cases (e.g. capital punishment). Today’s semichos are not worth much more than the paper they are written on.

By: rabbiofberlin

rabbiofberlin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:39:23 +0000

to “muss”- I don’t believe a word of what you said. By any stretch of the imagination, giving a title to a woman cannot be “jaharog ve’al jaavor”. this is preposterous.

By: shimen

shimen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:00:04 +0000

‘um hurav dome lemalech hashem tzevous yevakshu torah mipihu veum lav…’

By: k9hora

k9hora — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:52:29 +0000

#15 – why yeihoreg v’al yaavor? did he explain why so strict?

By: basmelech

basmelech — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:42:36 +0000

#11 charliehall – does that mean that someone who received semicha, and went off the derech,can still give semicha? I am not saying Avi Weiss is totally off the derech, but, he is definitely not on the mainstream derech.

By: Muss

Muss — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:03:40 +0000

I was at the RCA Conference. Rav Schachter shlita actually said that ordaining women as rabbis is yehareg v’al ya’avor.

By: WellInformedYid

WellInformedYid — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:54:36 +0000

Gregaaron:
This is a press release FROM (not to) RCA reread it!

By: 613770

613770 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:29:23 +0000

BSD
Number 8: I think the English translations are given so that everyone can understand what is written. Not everyone reading these documents will be Frum Yidden * And even some of the Frum won’t understand all the non English words. It’s a good / nice thing to do when you know that there are going to be people reading this, but they don’t understand the Hebrew words.
* Religious Jews

By: PachadYitzchakFan

PachadYitzchakFan — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:26:57 +0000

Dear gregaaron

I think that they were translating so that the general public (who may not understand) understands their position