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The Roles of a Bat Yisrael

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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so the the book of laws of Judaism Foundation of our laws is a m there's a a debate of whether you're allowed to pray in a place where you can see the women not stand next to them not pray next to them but actually even see them because there one strong opinion is supposed to be a complete wall where you can't even see the women can't see the men the men can't see the women and there's another strong opinion that you know what you know you could for the purpose of commanderie you could see you know the face of each other feels more there's more Unity fine so obviously if there's a debate of whether it's even allowed to be in a place to pray in a place where the men see the women or not obviously it's a it's you know needless to say that you're not allowed to pray in a place where there's no and it's all even more needless to say that you're not allowed to pray in a place where it counts the women as a as part of the minan when the T specifically States they're not part of a Manan now why are they not part of a minan because women are not obligated to pray men are obligated to pray three times a day women once a day they obligated once a day which one whichever one they want why only one number one as we said women are naturally spiritual they have less responsibility when it comes to that part of the uh of of spirituality but the reason why is because a woman in the Torah is called several names one of them is bite bite means house not because everyone's American and they're 500 lb but rather because a woman is responsible for the house they're responsible for building a koser home a holy home to have righteous kids like this that come to a lecture at 11:00 at night that's what you're responsible for you're responsible for having your kids interested in Torah you're responsible for making sure that when the husband comes home from a long day of work and a few hours of studying to he has something to look forward to you're responsible for the Holiness of the home but that also means that you have a full-time job it's even more difficult than a construction company it's even more difficult than the husband's job why because your job never ends his job ends at some point he wakes up at whatever time he wakes up he goes to besset hopefully he goes to work he works from 9:00 to 5:00 maybe if he has his own business he finishes at 8:00 he comes home at 8:00 hopefully he learns if he doesn't learn he's probably watching a basketball game of some other nonsense he goes to sleep and that's it he's finished manual labor is over a woman on the other hand especially in the early years when they have kids job never is never over why if have to feed the kid non-stop if have to change them and then also most babies don't have a normal schedule they wake up at 1:00 in the morning at 2:00 in the morning at 2:15 at 2:30 at 2:45 at 2:46 at 247 at 32 they don't stop waking up and in most cases the husband is still snoring not all the time sometimes the husband contributes like I tried to once in a blue moon but the point is that the wife is really responsible for this then when the kid grows up most husbands don't know what grade even their kidss are in cuz they're busy in their own world they're trying to manage the stress of the Working World kid tells him hey look uh I have homework AB oh go go to Ema do me a favor with the homework most most fathers are not you know they don't know anything they don't know how to deal with that stuff they're too busy they're too tired too this so this is the responsibility of the Mom it's a Non-Stop job how are you going to pray three times a day how could Hashem put an obligation on you to pray three times a day and do and then go learn to for a few hours a day and do all of these things on top of 24 hours a day job that's not that's not a fair tah so hasm says no she's not obligated to do these things why is this important because if there's a mitvah that you're doing out of will but not obligation it changes the level of the Mitzvah meaning if I'm obligated to pray every today then that means that I can be aazan and pray on your behalf because since I'm obligated for myself I could also take you out of an obligation when you have a caner you have a and he says a blessing and you say Amen when you say Amen it's the same or even more as if you did the blessing why because just like the one that hears and responds is the same thing as is the one that said it or even more so in some in some opinions but nonetheless the reason why you say Amen to my blessing is because I'm also obligated to do the blessing so since I'm obligated to take myself out of the uh responsibility of of the obligation of doing it then I can also do it for you but if I'm not obligated in this mitvah then I can't do it for you because I can't do the blessing unless I'm obligated so if I'm not obligated and I'm just doing it for someone else that means that at one point I'm actually violating one of the Ten Commandments I'm using hashem's name in vain since I'm just saying his name without taking myself out of an obligation so a woman is not obligated to pray three times a day therefore she cannot be the Kazan therefore she cannot be part of aan because you're not obligated to be part of aan you're not obligated to be aazan obligated to pray it all other than the one time that you could pick it any time that you want how how about them feel they're not obligated to do in past Generations some righteous women did it for example the wife of bu bu wanted to be and became one of the sages one of the sages in the Torah that she dedicated her life to learning Tora and she actually became even smarter than many of the sages the male sages and she laidine but buia was an exceptional case there are some other women in history that have done it also but according to all major opinions in today's generation you're not really going to find someone like bullah in our generation and usually the women that are laying in our generation are doing it for vanity reasons they're not doing it for AEM they're doing it for feministic reasons they're doing it for the wrong reason is in so many words and this is why you have hideous horrendous Wicked groups like women of the wall that go to the Western Wall and many skirts and tank tops wearing you don't even know how to dress and you want to wear you want to extra punishment so not only you don't know how to be modest not only you don't know how to act like a human being but on top of it you want to put aem's name on top to show everyone that's to provoke right right it's to provoke people so that's the reality of it so that's if a woman if a woman is already gotten to such a high level so that's a yes yes if a woman is already excelling like she's amazing at all of the MIT that she's responsible for she's amazing at schom she's amazing at modesty she's amazing at prayer she's amazing at helping a husband in any way that he can with his Torah learning with his s San with is anything that's necessary she's already doing every she has and she still has spare time somehow and she wants to go put by all means you're allowed but find me find me one woman like this until you know how to do your job at the best possible level you're not allowed to take another job right anywhere in anything if you go and you work for I don't know you work for UPS and tell you listen uh you know we have two job openings one is a manager and one is I don't know a vice president okay I'll take both of them what do you mean take both of them pick one cuz we like you and give you one of the jobs they both pay the same but you can't have both jobs why not cuz first you have to finish one job then we'll start talking about another job let's see what you do with one job first can't have two jobs so that's what happens when someone creates their own laws when someone is not really genuine and they say that aanu like these women of the wall like the reform like the conservative like all of these people that are just creating laws out of thin air with no foundation in Torah that's why the rambam has a specific saying for them calling them which is a degenerate with the name of a of the Torah using the name of the Torah because they are literally taking the Torah and treat treating it like a newspaper where they could just edit whatever they want