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

charliehall,

I agree with you on Nishmat. I am holding out judgment on Maharat. What I have seen so far is not so good.

Daniel,

You are tossing around the word kefira much too easily. Not everything innovative is kefira, not everything you disagree with is kefira and acknowledging changed circumstances is certainly not kefira. There is a machlokes Rishonim about what beliefs are necessary components for yiddishkeit. Learn what they are and then come back.

A thousand years ago there were no bodekets and mikva ladies just watched to make sure hair went under the water. If you are going to innovate by adding halachic roles for women then you need to correspondingly innovate by properly teaching them the halacha.

BTW, wise women who would check maaros are mentioned in the Gemara.