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Mad Prophet Ludwig2/03/2010 9:07:01 am PST

re: #364 SanFranciscoZionist

Well-established? OK. But norms change. There are photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of men and women praying side-by-side at the Wall, something that is now not permitted.

That may be. That is because the Wall was not then under rabbinic authority.

Just because there have always been Jews who ignore the LAw even at the Kotel, does not mean they should now or any other time.

I assure you that men and women praying separately goes back a lot further than the 1800’s and it id for good reason. Whether you like it or not, the idea of prayer is to go and pray and if you are in mixed seating, male or female, the tendency is to focus on the opposite gender.