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August 31, 2014 5:19 am at 5:19 am
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Joseph
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benignuman: The verbiage you suggest seemingly leaves the door open to women receiving smicha and becoming rabbis.
PAA: I’m not sure why you’d cite Rav Moshe to try to make your case. Rav Moshe said women cannot don a talis, even though m’ikur hadin they are not prohibited, because the motivation is feminism. If that weren’t the case here with becoming a rabbi/getting smicha, why would they be seeking such a position after thousands of years where it didn’t exist?