Bekitzur: They asked Shailas about it and were told it was okay. I believe they ran everything by Rav Willig, but I could be mistaken about who they asked. The reason for it was that they had received many complaints from a lot of random groups for not having women in there (one publication called them “Ultra-orthodox chauvinistic pigs”, if I recall correctly), so they felt it might be a Chillul Hashem to keep women out again. They did ask Shailas before they did it though. I wouldn’t expect that many women in a future video though. This one was mostly just because of the extenuating circumstances.
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