Women and Halakha Shiur

Women and Halakha Shiur by Rabbi Aryeh A. Frimer Introduction Course Text: R. Elyakim Getsel Ellinson, “haIsha ve-haMitsvot – Vol. I: Bein Isha leYotsra.”.
Shiur Number	Topic & Audio File (mp3)	Lecture Notes¹ (pdf)	Source Material¹ (pdf)
1	Evolution of Halakha		47
2	Women’s Obligation in Mitzvot	49, 52	48
3	Defining Time-Determined Commandments		51
4	Why Are Women Exempt		50
5	Flexibility in Choosing Roles
6	Making Berakha – 1
7	Making Berakha - 2
8	Self-Obligation; Tefilla Introduction	53	54
9	Self-Obligation, Oaths and Kol Nidrei		61
10	Women’s Obligations in Tefilla - 1	55
11	Women’s Obligations in Tefilla - 2
12	Women&Prayer - Specific Prayers - 1	56
13	Women&Prayer - Specific Prayers - 2	57, 59	58, 60
14	Women and Minyan - 1	62, 63	64; note 2
15	Women and Minyan - 2
Public Lecture	The Minyan Issue – Cleveland College of Jewish Studies; November 29, 1990	62
16	Women and Megilla	65	66; note 3
17	Women’s Prayer Groups -1		67; note 4
18	Women’s Prayer Groups - 2
19	Women’s Prayer Groups - 3
20	Women and Kaddish - 1	68	69
21	Women and Kaddish - 2
22	Women and Kaddish - 3
23	Women and Leadership Roles - 1	70,	71; 74 (Note 5)
24	Women and Leadership Roles - 2		73
Public Lecture	Women as Shul Presidents; Rehovot, January 7, 2007	Note 6	75
25	Halakha and Feminism		Note 7
26	Halakha and Feminism; Tsniut
27	Tsni’ut: 3 Types of Modesty	6 (short)	7 (short), 9 (long)
28	Sexual Distraction - 1		12 ,13
29	Sexual Distraction - 2
30	Sexual Distraction - 3
31	Tsniut: Absolute vs Relative School
32	Responsa in Relative School - 1
33	Responsa in Relative School - 2
34	Kisui Se’ar – Hair Covering – 1	4 (short)	5 (short)
35	Kisui Se’ar – 2		14, 15
36	Kisui Se’ar - 3; Head Covering - 1		11
37	Kisui Se’ar (summary); Head Covering - 2
38	Begged Ish, Unisex Clothing and Pants		10
39	Pants and Tsni’ut
40	Mehitsa -1		17, 18
41	Mehitsa -2
42	Mehitsa -3
43	Mehitsa -4
44	Mehitsa at weddings		19
45	Mixed Youth Groups; Open Society		20,21
46	Nidda, Prayer and Torah - 1		22
47	Nidda, Prayer and Torah - 2
48	Women and Tefillin - 1	23	25, 26, 27
49	Women and Tefillin - 2
50	Women, Tefillin and Tsitsit - 3	24
51	Women’s Movement: Tefillin and Tsitsit
52	Women Who Wore Tsitsit or Tefillin
53	Female_spirituality & Women as Soferot	28	37, 29
54	Women as Soferot		30
55	Women and the Mitzva of Mila		31
56	Women as Mohalot; Woman’s Role		33
57	Woman’s Role; Feminism; Motivation		35, 36
58	Feminism; Issues in Determining Pesak		32
59	Feminism; Women Learning Torah - 1	39	34, 40, 42
60	Women Learning Torah - 2
61	Women Learning Torah - 3
62	Women Learning Torah - 4
63	Women Learning Torah - 5
64	Women Learning Torah - 6
65	Women Learning Torah - 7
66	Women and Birkhot haTorah - 1		43
67	Women and Birkhot haTorah - 2
68	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 1		44
69	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 2
70	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 3
71	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 4
72	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 5
73	Women, Keri’at haTorah and Aliyyot - 6
74	Kevod haTsibbur and Aliyyot - 1
75	Kevod haTsibbur and Aliyyot - 2
76	Kevod haTsibbur and Aliyyot – 3 (noisy)
	Women’s Aliyyot - Shiurim missing
77	Women as Educators (noisy)		41
78	Bat Mitsva - 1 (noisy)		45, 46
79	Bat Mitsva - 2
80	When Erev Pesach Falls on Shabbat (noisy)		English, Hebrew

1. Lecture notes and Source material may overlap several shiurim

2. See: “Women and Minyan,” Aryeh A. Frimer, Tradition, 23:4, 54-77 (Summer 1988). "Ma’amad haIsha baHalakha: Nashim uMinyan [The Status of Women in Jewish Law - Women and Minyan]”, Aryeh A. Frimer, Or HaMizrach, 34, 69-86 (5745/1985). (In Hebrew).

3. “Women’s Megillah Reading,” Aryeh A. Frimer, In “Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah,” Ora Wiskind Elper, Editor; Urim Publications: Jerusalem, 2003; pp. 281-304.

4. “Women's Prayer Services: Theory and Practice. Part 1 - Theory,” Aryeh A. Frimer and Dov I. Frimer, Tradition, 32:2, pp. 5-118 (Winter 1998).

5. “Nashim beTafkidim Tsibburiyyim biTekufa haModernit [Women in Community Leadership Roles in the Modern Period],” Aryeh A. Frimer, In “Afikei Yehudah - Rabbi Yehuda Gershuni zt’l Memorial Volume,” R. Itamar Warhaftig, ed., Ariel Press: Jerusalem, 5765 (2005), pp. 330-354 (In Hebrew).

6. “Women in Community Leadership Roles – Shul Presidents” – Edited Transcript of Lecture (in English) with Addenda (Summaries of Conversations with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Rav Nahum Rabinovitch), Aryeh A. Frimer,

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