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oomis
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Is there a real issur on women davening together in a group, or leining? I know it is not assur for us to touch a Sefer Torah, so what is the problem about dancing with it (separate from men watching them, of course)?

The women’s rabbi thing is a whole ‘nother issue altogether, and I am sure most frum people would agree about that subject, in spite of the “rabbah” title some would like to confer on a learned woman. My feeling is, you can label an apple as an orange, but at the end of the day it was, is, and always will be an apple. The title Rabbi specifically normally refers to a male who because of his intense learning and understanding of Torah, has received smicha, and who then hopefully will impart his learning to others. A female who is equally learned as he, (and there are such women) is still a female, and cannot be a rabbi. (I would rather she be known as a talmidat chacham. But nobody asked me and the decision is not mine to make).