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I have noticed that almost every online judaica store in the world has women’s tallis
I thought this was forbidden. But to my surprise I saw an article where R. Feinstein permitted it under specific conditions. Can anyone translate that section of the Igros Moshe for me
Not only that, but the judaica stores also sell women’s kippas.
What do people think of this? I personally don’t want to buy from a store that sells sifrei kodesh beside women’s tallis. But with what I think is about 90% of judaica stores doing this how am I supposed to buy seforim?
I’ve been to very many seforim stores and judaica stores, and I’ve yet to encounter even one that sells a woman’s tallis or yarmulka.
There must be something fishy in the waters where your are in the land down under…
Eichlers.
We had a store in my area that sold “apikorsus” books like ” the five books of Miriam” R’L.
I asked a shaila and was told it was permitted for me to enter there and buy products there if I couldn’t get them from elsewhere easily, or if it was more expensive elsewhere.
R’ Moshe has a Tshuvah that sort of implies a special-made women’s Tallis/Tallis Kotton might be okay. R’ Schachter’s points about feminism still probably stand, though.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=920&st=&pgnum=83&hilite=
Pretty strongly against feminism, wouldn’t you say?
Online stores generally sell for a more varied crowd because they’re so accessible.
DY: Of course. Not as strong as R’ Schachter’s though. Though R’ Schachter will probably claim that R’ Moshe would agree with him in the current climate.
He calls them ?????? ?????. What does Rav Schachter call them?
Excellence, do you buy kosher food in a market that sells treif?
Why can’t a Judaica store carry items for non-orthodox Jews? A Jewish store owner can sell food without hashgachas or with supervision below your standards
Excellence, here is a translation (from R’ M. Broyde) I found of part of that teshuvah:
[hearing the] shofar and [waving the] lulav and recite blessings [on these performances]
However, it is obvious that this applies only if her soul yearns to perform mitzvot, notwithstanding the fact that she is not commanded to perform them. However, since it is not with this intent but rather stems from her protest against God and His Torah this is not the act of a mitzvah at all; quite the opposite, [it is] a forbidden act, for she commits heresy, thinking it possible for the laws of the Torah to be changed even in a grave matter.
DY: I thought R’ Moshe was saying it is situational, not like R’ Schachter who holds that even ideas that come from feminists are Kefirah.
According to R’ Moshe, could a woman with pure motives wear a tallis? Could she wears it in private?
“Excellence, do you buy kosher food in a market that sells treif?”
Actually, I live near an area where there’s a store that claims to be a 100% kosher-only supermarket, but they sell foods that are only kosher by the heterodoxy’s reckoning like gelatin, non-hechshered cheese (i.e. totally treif food). Then there’s a regular supermarket that just happens to have a kosher section. Most of the more religious folks in the area actually prefer the regular supermarket over the falsely labelled kosher market. Point is, the example you gave is more comparable to getting seforim at like a Barnes and Noble or a university library. The OP’s example is analogous to the misleading “kosher” market, which many would consider to be worse.
Excellence, to whom are you referring when you say “They did not stand at Har Sinai. We did.”? Non-orthodox Jews? If so, when a non-orthodox Jew becomes a BT, does he or she retroactively stand at Har Sinai?
On the original topic, when I lived OOT, there was just one seforim store. The owners were frum. They sold women’s taleisim — I remember seeing one that had the 4 imahos on the 4 corners. I think they also sold conservative and reform prayer books. I don’t know from whom they got a heter.
Matan1: Probably. I won’t say yes, but saying no is probably false.
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