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I thought the words of Harav Chaim Berlin zt”l, son of the Netziv, in a tshuva from his sefer, (Nishmas Chaim, Sh’elos U’tshuvos Harav Chaim Berlin, tshuva #135, edited by Rav Yaakov Kosovsky Shachor)would be helpful in this discussion concerning shaking a woman’s hand:

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