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Can a court retroactively annul a vow that was already annulled by the father/husband?
It seems from the plain language of the Rambam in Haflaah, Nedarim, 12:19 that she would be liable regardless, and that a court can not help her here. The commentaries seem silent regarding this ...
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Seeking Sources on the Russian Decree Regarding Jewish Dress Code
Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire, 1851, № 25113:
Russian in pre-reform orthography:
25113. — Апрѣля 12. Сенатскій, по Высочайшему повеленію.—О запрещеніи женщинамъ Еврейкамъ ...
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Seeking Sources on the Russian Decree Regarding Jewish Dress Code
In Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents [1772-1914], pp. 302-303 the following petition is translated:
Petition of a Rabbi and Merchants of Zhitomir
to Count Kiselev [Chairman of ...
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Seeking Sources on the Russian Decree Regarding Jewish Dress Code
Rav Shlomo Kluger in Sh'not Chaim 316 writes:
במדינות רוסיא דהגזירה הוי שם שילכו הנשים בשערות שלהם ... בעוה"ר בזה"ז הרבה פרוצות שהולכין בכוונה בשער
שלהם ... ובפרט במדינות רוסיא דהגזירה שם ...
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Why can’t a lady blow Shofar for a man?
The Levush 589:1 explains that although in theory any sound should suffice, even from a monkey (or a machine??), however Chazal qualified that it must be a sound that is made by someone who is chayiv ...
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Woman blowing shofar vs. hearing from a man?
Shulchan Aruch O”C 589:6 says she can blow herself
אף על פי שנשים פטורות יכולות לתקוע וכן אחר שיצא כבר יכול לתקוע להוציאן אבל אין מברכות ולא יברכו להן: הגה והמנהג שהנשים מברכות על מצות עשה שהזמן גרמא ...
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Shmiras eineiyim for women
The sefer chasidim 614 writes, among his whole lengthy piece, that
שמכל שהאיש מוזהר האשה מוזהרת
Whatever a man is commanded in, so to a woman.
This may include shmirat eynayim, though he does ...
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