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It is nothing special to see women, it is a matter of being accustomed, it does not excite the fantasies of a man.

— Regina Jonas

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God planted in our heart skills and a vocation without asking about gender. Therefore, it is the duty of men and women alike to work and create according to the skills given by God.

Just as both female doctors and teachers in time have become a necessity from a psychological standpoint, so has the female rabbi.

How beneficial it could be to have a woman in the rabbinic role to reclaim the lost meaning of tsni’ut by example and through teaching.

In spite of everything, in dealing with the theme at hand, one must, as is often repeated here, take both the changing times and the sensibilities of earlier times into account.

Many decrees of our sages were withdrawn, as we earlier have seen; particularly concerning this kind of tsni’ut, they lose much of their severity.

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