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Do you not know anyone who has a gender?
I was not being cynical. I actually do want to know, how do you define a “sefer?”
LeftySeferStam, based on his post above, seems to think it depends on the gender of the author.
Here are some more criteria to consider:
Is it treated as sheimos if ruined?
do you kiss it if it falls?
Can you place it on top of another sefer?
Can you read it prior to saying the morning Birchas HaTorah?
I really am curious to know how people define the word sefer.“LeftySeferStam, based on his post above, seems to think it depends on the gender of the author.”
I didn’t hear that. He didn’t say it depends on the gender of the author, he said that women don’t write sefarim. And then you brought examples of books written by women that you said are referred to as sefarim and I jumped in to say I have never heard them referenced that way.
Point being, it isn’t about ability of women, it is about appropriateness and tafkid. Feel free to disagree but this is how *I* was taught and *I* believe it to be so. The idea that a woman would write a sefer and use a man’s name is very disturbing to me. To me. That is MY feeling and opinion. It does not feel honest TO ME and I see it as a lacking in she’asani kirtzono. That was not a psak I received, it is how I was taught AND how I feel as well.
Ha ha, and looking back at Lefty’s post he seemed to be commenting more on the absence of comments from our CR-Dayanim than on the subject itself! Joseph – do women write their seforim while making dinner?
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