Reply To: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work

Gadol: Are you accusing the Rambam of making up an “arbitrary” set limit when he codified the Halacha? Are you implying that whereas the Halacha was correct and proper in the times of the Rambam and the Mechaber, today that changed and the codified Halacha needs to be whited-out from the Shulchan Aruch what was correct and proper then is no longer now and, as such, the Halacha has changed? At what time in history after Klal Yisroel accepted the Shulchan Aruch did this particular halacha go from being in force to it being cancelled? And where is this change documented in sh”ut Seforim that we no longer adhere to this halacha?; and which great rabbis (Rav Shlomo Riskin? Rav Avi Weiss?) wrote the teshuva?

If this is your position, please explain how your position is any different than that of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards that every so often updates, modifies, deletes and/or adds to Halacha. Such as when in the 1950s they decided driving to shul on Shabbos is now permissible even while acknowledging that the “old halacha” prohibited it. How is what you’re suggesting different in principal, even if you perhaps differ from them on individual halachos that you consider need to be changed for the 20th/21st centuries.