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I think we need to stop ducking this question and finally address it directly.
Women do not wear tzitzis, do not wear tefilin, do not wear yarlmukes, do not learn, daven, eat in the sukkah, or really do any of the mitzvos.
They don’t count for a minyan, they can’t be motzi Jews in mitzvos, they can’t read from the torah, they can’t be a witness, can’t be a judge, etc.
They don’t even have a bris, which is the sign of our covenant with Hashem!
Even things they do, like dress tznius, are really just commandments against appearing non-tznius. They basically just can’t violate shabbos, and can’t eat non-kosher.
So, are they really Jewish? What makes someone Jewish?
If women aren’t Jewish, then the men aren’t either, since every man is born from a woman and Jewishness follows the mother.
The Wolf
Yes they are “jewish women”, they are not jewish men.
u neglected to mention that men even thank hashem she lo asani eesha 🙂
Only some people know how to make cars, and only some women are able to give birth to Jews.
Is it your contention that the halacha regarding maternal transmission of Jewishness is wrong?
The Wolf
“They basically just can’t violate shabbos”
No, they are obligated in all mitzvos of shaboss like kidush, seudas shaboss etc. just like men are.
Lol Popa I have a rayah (proof) to support you from this weeks parsha, the son of the mitzri was from a jewish woman that didn’t make him jewish! 🙂
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This is the most funniest yet twisted question I have ever come across.
I would say that in answer to your question, the real essence of being jewish has nothing to do with performing mitzvos.
Mitzvos are a bonus thing. A way to earn rewards and bring yourself to love Hashem and make Him happy.
Women are busy doing their own mitzvos. The ones above are not the only mitzvos in the Torah.
Being Jewish is a soul thing. A belief in Ha Kodesh Baruch Hu, the instintual middah every yid posses to have rachumonis on another human being, and to abhor and hate idol worship.
On the more practical note side of this, if Abishter wanted he could have intended all those mitzvos you mention above, for women too. And He didn’t.
Are men realParents just because they don’t carry a child for 9 months and give birth to it, then nurse it?
Its just that Aibishter didn’t intend for that part of the avodah to men.
mbachor; I believe you are refering to the Rashi saying “melamed shnisgeiyer”, but that was before matan torah when we still had the halacha of a ben noach were we go acording to the father.
I’m not saying the halacha is wrong. I’m just saying it doesn’t mean that the women themselves are Jewish.
Whatever. I don’t even know why I’m bothering with this question. If you really have any doubts as to whether or not your wife is Jewish, perhaps you should speak to your LOR.
The Wolf
deiy,
I know I’m just playing along with Popa 🙂
Woman must be Jewish Only a Jewish woman can make chicken soup:)
“they can’t be motzi Jews in mitzvos”
Really? Since when?
no the reason is because they have the influance of there mothers brother.
In those mitzvos that they are mechiyov like kiddush they can be motzoi men.
I love this question.
Is Popa Jewish?
Are Navi officers not members of the militery? They dont fly planes like the Air Force? they dont jump like paratroopres? They are members of a diferent division in the same army, there job is to navigate submarines.
“The son of the Mitzri was not originally Jewish because he was born before Matan Torah.”
We don’t know that. Ibn Ezra says that the Mitzi converted to Judaism. That would create a problem because Mitzrim are not permitted to marry born Jews until the third generation. (That Shlomo HaMelech did this greatly troubled Chazal.)
“Is Popa Jewish? “
Since there are real answers to Popa’s question, there is no need to attack him personaly.
Women were at Har Sinai with the men. So they, and their children, are Jewish.
Wathever comments anybody still has for this thread, please do so quickly. I believe this thread will be closed within the hour.
What was the point of this question?!
Let’s ask a different question. Are you – including me, including any man or woman – displaying the three midos of a Yid?
Now THAT’s a question!
I my opinion, Jewish women are Jewish (not ALL women)
Popa not every Navi officer is a commando.
charlie,
which mitzri are you talking about, the megadef, no one said he was going to marry a non ger
emlf; Wow!!
popa, does your mother know you post here?
did she laugh when you asked her this question (as we did when we read it)?
basically, you’re saying that since women are not obligated in those mitzvos you listed they are not jewish, i.e., jewishness is defined by the obligation to do those particular mitzvos.
well, for one thing, aren’t the ten commandments pretty important mitzvos? not one of them is gender specific.
second, aren’t women obligated in three specific mitzvos? are you, that is, men, not jewish because you don’t have to take challah, light candles, or keep thm as women are obligated to? (true, you can take challah and light candles if there’s no woman around to do it, but we can make kiddush etc if there is no man around, too.)
now, i have a different question: you know that joke about the guy going to three different rabbis because he wants to be a cohen, and the orthodox and conservative rabbis tell him he can’t become one, and finally the reform rabbi says no problem, just why do you want to become a cohen? and he says because my father was one, and my grandfather was, etc. hahaha, what an ignoramus, right?
well, what if his father married out? true, he should be a cohen because his father is a cohen and that follows the father. but jewishness follows the mother and if he’s not jewish, he can’t be a cohen. so there goes the joke.
what if he converts back? he can become jewish, but can he become a cohen retroactively?
“which mitzri are you talking about, the megadef, no one said he was going to marry jewish”
If I remember correctly, they can marry another convert.
“Women do not wear tzitzis, do not wear tefilin, do not wear yarlmukes, do not learn, daven, eat in the sukkah, or really do any of the mitzvos.”
Women can wear tzitzit. Women are required to learn all the mitzvot for which they are chayev, and are permitted to learn almost everything else. (Rov Soloveitchik z’tz’l said that we are REQUIRED to teach gemara to women.) Women are required to pray the Shemoneh Esrei by Rambam, the Shulchan Aruch, the Mishnah Berurah, the Aruch HaShulchan, in fact by every halachic code except the Magen Avraham. Women eat in the sukkah in most communities and an Ashkenazic woman recites the brachah before doing so. To say that women “don’t do any of the mitzvot” is a massive distortion of halachah!
“They don’t count for a minyan, they can’t be motzi Jews in mitzvos, they can’t read from the torah, they can’t be a witness, can’t be a judge, etc.”
Minyan is not from the Torah, it is a d’rabbanan, and according to Ran and HaMeiri a woman counts for a minyan in anything for which she is actually obligated such as reading the Megillah. A woman can motzi any other Jew in any mitzvah who has an equal level of obligation; for example, a woman can recite the Friday night kiddush for her husband according to all opinions (and my wife often does this for me). A woman can read from the Torah in a group of women. A woman is a kosher witness for many things including kashrut and taharat hamishpacha. (Good thing — if not, you’d never be able to have marital relations or eat from your own family kitchen!) According to Rav Uziel z’tz’l, a woman can be a Dayan as long as the parties to the case accept her and that particular tshuvah was universally accepted by all Orthodox communities; in fact there are no women today who have as of yet earned the Yadin Yadin semichah necessary to judge property cases but that does not change the basic halachah.
Now for real. Women have Kabolas Ol Mitzvohs just as men. Only a few less. Make a cheshbon, how many are we dealing with?
how about this Popa,
women are obligated in Shabbos
and Goy sheshavas Chayav Misah
so by default have to be jewish (they’re not goyim)
“Popa not every Navi officer is a commando.
I know. And not everybody is Jewish.”
But every Navi officer no matter whats his job is a member of the militery, and every jew no matter if in the men zeman geramah division or in the womens seloh hazman geramah division is a member in hashems army.
thanks deiy,
I realized that after I posted so i edited it
Why are men Jewish?
Is someone who is not shomer torah umitsvos Jewish? What make you and me Jewish? Why do you assume that being mechuyav in mitzvos is what makes someone Jewish, maybe the citeria is being forbiden in lo sase. Maybe it’s just geneology? Or both?
If we Jewish women weren’t Jewish, we wouldn’t be allowed to keep Shabbos. And please, enough with the women jokes.
ursula momish
Those mitzvohs you mentioned are not ‘ladies mitzvohs’. Actually I think thm is MORE for Men. Men are obligated in Challah and Neros Shabbos too. It’s just that the women are more into theses three than men. More into bringing children into this world and insuring a proper chinuch, too. More into Mitzvos of chesed with family and friends all day long too.
popa, I think you enjoy getting on people’s nerves. Well, you succeded in getting on mine and insulting me. Happy?
“are you, that is, men, not jewish because you don’t take challah, light candles, or keep thm “
Men are required to take challah, light candles, and keep thm. Male bakers take challah all the time.
“we can make kiddush etc if there is no man around”
L’chatchala a woman can make kiddush for her husband on Friday night. In fact, if the husband has davened maariv but the wife does not daven maariv (for example, if she holds by the Mishnah Berurah and davens shacharit and minchah but not maariv), the wife actually has a HIGHER level of obligation to make kiddush than her husband and strictly speaking from a halachic perspective it would be PREFERABLE for her to make kiddush (and not just for her husband but for any guests as well). For other reasons this is not typically done, but my wife often makes kiddush for me at our table on Friday night. (And yes, I clear this entire logic with my Rav.)
Popa: Why do you need to know?
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