The Rambam is 100% correct that women shouldn’t go outside much. No, we should not be prancing around shopping, etc. anytime we feel like it. Ideally we should live within the halachic limitations as Rambam and others define it. Nevertheless in our mixed up society where everything is topsy turvy and everyone thinks they have the RIGHT to do as they wish, and how dare anyone infringe on their RIGHTS… well, if the Rabbonim insisted on them following things K’Halacha, there might be a revolution by those people. They might go completely off the derech. So the Rabbonim don’t crack down even on things that are really kneged halacha, so that they can convince these people to at least keep some of the important stuff.
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