Miriam's Song & Rav Berman

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> Wasn't that how this all started? Lahem is a masculine form.

That does not prove anything. There are numerous places
throughout the Bible where a masculine form is used for
a feminine plural pronoun. A striking example is
Numbers 27:7, where God orders, referring to the
daughters of Tz'lofchad: "Naton titen laheM . . .
aviheM." LaheN/LaheM and AviheN/aviheM are used
interchangably in that verse. (Shira Fischer once
pointed me to this example.)

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Dan Jacobs wrote:

>> rabbi saul berman is lenient to the point that he is
>> barely even accepted in most orthodox circles. dont
>> get me started on him.....
>
> Fair enough, I don't know him (being over in the UK),
> I found him quoted on the Edah website a couple of
> times.

Rav Berman is affiliated with Yeshiva University and
his interesting study on Kol Isha can be read here:
http://www.edah.org/docs/Kol%20Isha.pdf

Another interesting study is by Rav Mendel Shapiro on
public reading of the Torah in the synagogue by women:
http://www.edah.org/backend/JournalArticle/1_2_shapiro.pdf


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 Irwin Oppenheim
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