Women and Kaddish.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

AT FIRST GLANCE, ANY DISCUSSION OF THE APPROPRIATENESS of women saying Kaddish, the traditional mourner's prayer, seems to be superfluous. On the one hand, those for whom egalitarianism is the major ethical principle see no possibility of excluding women from participating in this or any other synagogue experience. On the other, those committed to traditional halakhic norms tend to take for granted that women are excluded from any formal liturgical role.

This characterization of the halakhic position, however, is oversimplified. It is true, of course, that halakha ...

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