Timeline for Can a female be a Shochet? (slaughter animals)
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| Mar 12, 2015 at 5:44 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | "Yet, there was never a single Jewish community in which the same woman who dealt with all the blood and guts of 'dinner', would actually shecht it herself. That sets a very strong precedent for Minhag Yisrael." You just made that up. There actually were historically women who did Shechita. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | But see Rav soloveitchik's view (quoted in Ze'ev's answer) that this was due to the shochet's status as a communal leader, not because of shying away from blood and guts. | |
| Jan 18, 2012 at 15:36 | history | answered | user1095 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |