re: #524 SanFranciscoZionist

I hear what you’re saying, but as I say, I do not actually accept that women davening together is trayf, nor that a woman wearing a tallis is, nor even that it is outside the range of acceptable Jewish tradition.

OK and that certainly is fair. We Jews have a really long Tradition about arguing about the Tradition for sure!

However, the majority historically and even today sees it differently than you do and even if this particular injunction only has the status of a minhag, it is the majority minhag of the world wide observant community, and then you are still facing an issue in public and particularly at the Kotel.

And that really does bring another point. I do not know your level of observance and I do not wish to pry. So please take my next remark as absolutely NOT directed at you.

I do take a certain offence at Jews who do not keep kashrut or Shabbos lecturing other Jews who are observant on what Jewish law is. I am not in any way G-d forbid saying that they are lesser than observant Jews as Jews. I am certainly not, G-d forbid, trying to say that they are less good people or that G-d loves them less or hears them less or any other such evil clap trap. However, it really is offensive to those of us who keep the Tradition as best we can to be told by those who do not what it is. And not you, but many of the women I have met who make the arguments you do, frankly could not say a prayer in Hebrew or tell you all the holidays, let alone what they mean.