Reply To: Why Can't Women Get Modern Smicha and Become Rabbis?

Avram,

I am not coming from some sort of feminist, “lets be egalitarian” position and I am not coming to validate anything ex post facto. I don’t think the world is harmed in anyway by there not being women rabbis.

However, I value honest clear positions based on honest clear arguments. There is no categoric rule in halacha that women cannot be rabbis, so why pretend as if there is. Rather we should say that “if a properly motivated sufficient learned woman comes along and wishes to be tested for smicha, we have no problem with that. However we have a problem with institutions created for the purpose of being like Conservative and Reform, the church or secular society.”