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Gateway to Tefilla: The Controversy of "Shelo Asani Isha"

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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because she is not commanded on mitzvoth governed by time kamehameha so a man has more opportunities to do mitzvahs now again it's not degrading because there are a lot of women who are greater than any of us including uh sarah this partial size greater than any sadiq you ever knew sarah was in a via sarah was uh lived a life of 127 years kulam shove him let's but nevertheless she wasn't kaif be mitzvoice so what is this analogous to you know what a man is like a man is like a worker who enters his friend's uh field with permission and plants with permission and a woman is like someone who enters without permission in other words the reward is not the same because she's not commanded so a man could get more scar a man is mitsuba isa and therefore we thank hashem that we have the opportunity to be higher than mitzvos furthermore furthermore even mitzvahs that women are obligated in they're not always allowed to do a woman has to honor her father and mother but the husband says but i want to eat supper tonight the woman says no i have to go honor my father and he says no you're not allowed to woman can't go be my habit or parents she has a she signed the document she's on diksuba she's a mashup with her husband now you know i'm not saying you should tell her that you know you might get separate tonight but maybe never again but a woman has a financial now it's not that you're more important than

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  1. 1:06because she is not commanded on mitzvoth governed by time kamehameha so a man has more
  2. 3:40you know i don't like to toe the party line most women will say that the
  3. 6:14and all of us also says that the voice says is she accepts it you know
  4. 8:55um in bamir arab it says why in the torah yeah number three why in the
  5. 11:27that and therefore he revolutionizes the bracha of shasani kirsana and that's what we're going to
  6. 14:42i mean if the brothels are all negative one second because answers you can because it's
  7. 17:30you made the decision on your own you didn't ask anybody else another shot you ready
  8. 20:15so somebody says i'm connect me and god are connected and the person doesn't fulfill mitzvahs
  9. 23:25yari shamayim without learning torah you could jump up and down all kabbalah shabbas you could
  10. 26:18okay so that's that i don't know that is mukhrok and i don't know if we

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