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Article: Further on women as prayer leaders and their role in communal prayer: an exchange, communal prayer and women. (response to Judith Hauptman, Judaism, vol. 42, p. 94, 1993)(includes related article)
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- September 22, 1993
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I. Introduction
PROFESSOR JUDITH HAUPTMAN'S ARTIcle, "Women and Prayer: An Attempt to Dispel Some Fallacies" (JUDAISM 42:94-103 [1993]), addresses two fundamentally different issues. Hauptman's first section, which reviews the obligation of women to pray, is on point. Jewish law requires men and women to pray daily, and the overwhelming majority of authorities rule that this obligation encompasses the duty for all to say certain fixed prayers, including shemoneh esrei (the "Eighteen Benedictions") every day. Anyone who is involved in the Orthodox Jewish day school system knows that such is the policy of all Jewish schools and communities.(1) Even the Artscroll ...
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