Women of the Wall – The Legacy of Rashi’s Daughters 11 23 2025

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

You ready man? >> Okay. Um the the the is the is a very interesting place. It's it's tell us from the is always there today in the modern form of Israel it became like a national monument and they do like army swearing in ceremonies there. Um there's there's separate areas that are clear like makilas for men and women are clear like makilas for men and women and then there's like a photo shoot area which is for everybody. You have you know people of all stripes and faiths coming is like an interesting place. It's a very interesting place. Now there's one of the most interesting groups that the I don't know I've seen them you could see them oneshik timeish every a group comes to the it's called the women of the wall. Um it's a colorful group. They come with like uh you know colorful talisim. Some of them are wearing tin vo they try to sneak in a safe lane. You've never seen them? a safe lane. You've never seen them? Yeah. Fascinating group called the women of the wall. Now not all of them are religious. A lot of them are not even religious at all. They're reformed some conservative some religious. I don't know if they're all Jewish. They come and they have a that they would like the to be more egalitarian. And they want you know all kinds of Jews to have a they come. Now their main like vehicle of expressing their displeasure with the religious status quo of the kaisel is that they come wearing towels and till now wearing towels and till for women is very out of character very odd and

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1. 0:00You ready man? >> Okay. Um the the the is the is a very interesting place.…
2. 2:33Rash's daughters. And we'll go into that a lot. Rashy's daughters. It's like a fascinating story,…
3. 5:38it is because mit is my grandma and And it would have been about Typhus argues…
4. 8:43his grandma says if they want to put on talisma just like any other which is…
5. 11:51maybe she's to and she could be and she's so is like the the quintessential exception…
6. 15:02every localized and ra's job to make small takis for short term that's what he says…
7. 18:04that was and he named it meaning you don't need anything else you know in place…
8. 21:10what This didn't mean what's the macar for this. People didn't your average person did not…
9. 24:15the German valley the French valley and it becomes like a world of its own. Now…
10. 27:20three or four of them quoted in one discussion but there's about I don't know I'm…

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