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

Ches and notasheep,

You are bringing sources of a how a woman should relate to her husband. Letschmooze was making a claim about how a woman should relate to everyone else.

A woman has no shibudim to society. The Rambam holds of a prohibition of srera on woman having positions of power (like being President, or King). I haven’t done a serious survey to see what other Rishonim held, but it isn’t relevant for rabbis because the modern Rabbi has enforceable power. People only listen because they want to listen (like Tosafos explains by Devorah).

Charliehall,

As you can see from my posts, I am in favor of women being able to be Rabbis as an abstract matter. However what Maharat is doing is, I think, wrong. Because their stated goal is pluralism and being more like the goyim, and that is the wrong motivation.