DY: First of all, I apologize for my harsh tone in a lot of these posts, especially the last one. I unfortunately had a very hard week and was in a lot of pain and I overreacted to a lot of things.
I’m not denying that you respect women and I’m not saying that it’s impossible to respect women and still think they shouldn’t do certain things. The Torah says that as well.
I’m just trying to figure out how we can halachically figure out where the line rests. Here in seminary, we learn a lot of halacha out of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishnah Berurah. I wrote a term paper where I needed to carefully attribute my sources. We learned about the process of deciding halacha and it is based on precedent, pesukim, gemara, etc.
I have no problem understanding that a rav and posek may pasken that a woman shouldn’t be in the Knesset- I was just wondering if, in halacha, there is a specific don’t-cross-this-boundary point that makes something like the Knesset more of an issue than any other workplace.
That’s really it.