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Responsum: On Reciting the Shema‘ in the Presence of Bareheaded Women
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‘Arukh ha-shulḥan, oraḥ ḥayim § 75:7And now come and let us shout out against the licentiousness of our generation, on account of our many sins. For it has now been many years that the daughters of…

Contributor:

‘Arukh Ha-shulḥan (Yeḥiel Mikhl Epstein)

Places:

Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Prayer & liturgy, Women, Sin, Rabbinic/Rabbanite, Purity, Responsa

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Responsa, Prayer & Liturgy
Responsum: On Prostitutes’ Gifts to the Synagogue
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Concerning the matter of prostitutes from the daughters of Israel—far be it from our straight paths—who dedicate a new ark curtain or Torah scroll cover, it is permissible from a legal point of view…

Contributor:

Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon

Places:

Alexandria, Egypt

Date:

1907/8

Subjects:

Prostitution, Piety, Sin, Adolescence, Women, Politics, Responsa

Categories:

Political Culture, Responsa
Commentary on Sotah: On the Education of Girls
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4] The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…

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Chofetz Chaim

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Education, Women, Oral Torah, Piety, Sin, Theology

Categories:

Theology