{"id":35829,"date":"2011-08-10T16:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35829"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T22:11:19","slug":"rabbi-yosef-kanefsky-replaces-original-post-on-morning-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35829","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky Replaces Original Post On Morning Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debra responds<\/a>: Rabbi Kanefsky,<\/p>\n

Though you may have changed some of the language of your earlier post, I assume you still hold what you wrote earlier to be true.<\/p>\n

Ealier you wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201d . . . Simply for lack of male reproductive organs, otherwise qualified women are still barred from the rabbinate, and from many positions of communal leadership. She can be a judge, but not a dayan. A brain surgeon, but not a posek. And often she must content herself with davening in a cage in shul, from where her desire to say kaddish for a parent may or may not be tolerated. This is no way to run a religion that claims wisdom as its inheritance. But every morning in the daily blessings, we unthinkingly mouth the philosophical justification for these demeaning, arbitrary, discriminatory practices . . . \u201d<\/p>\n

So what are your thoughts?<\/p>\n

Do you plan on:<\/p>\n

A) Pushing for women to serve as rabbis<\/p>\n

B) Pushing for women to serve as Dayanim<\/p>\n

C) Pushing for women to serve as Posekot<\/p>\n

D) Doing away with Mechitzot<\/p>\n

Seems to me that you have some serious issues with Orthodox Judaism not being fully egalitarian.<\/p>\n

What are you proposing to do about that?<\/p>\n

Assuming you\u2019re as passionate about egalitarianism as you write, will simply ommitting one blessing settle the score?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t take you seriously until I see more from you than just leaving out one morning blessing.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s all it will take for you to feel that the egalitarian issues inherent within Orthodoxy have been solved, you aren\u2019t being true to what you have written.<\/p>\n

Bruria the Talmudist writes:<\/p>\n

“Baruch Atta Adonai Sh’Assani Kir’Tzono”. Bless you God who
\nmade me as he\/she wishes. <\/p>\n

I love this B’racha. To me it means that I am just as God wanted.
\nWow. What a privilege. What a send off to start my day. God must
\nreally loves me. I AM exactly the way he \/ she envisioned me in the
\nblueprint. Thank you God! I’ll try to live up to my potential.<\/p>\n

I was taught that woman is more spiritual then man, that is why we
\nare exempt of Mitzvah Sh’HaZman Gramah… Mitzvah that depends
\non time. At times… I was worried, perhaps it is a ploy to keep us in
\nthe back seats of the Jewish of community bus?The counter blessing
\n“Sh’Lo Assani Isha” would always increase my doubts re: our validity
\nand equality. <\/p>\n

In times like this, to find solace I’d embrace this blessing, sousing
\nmyself remembering: I am created as God wished me to be…forget
\nthe rest. I’d get up and march in the route of my saintly mother Z”L
\nand the rest of the Matriarchs exemplified us. <\/p>\n

BUT…It’s time to address those issues.
\nTime to correct this ignorant, primitive as well as insulting put downs. <\/p>\n

For God’s sake and the sake of our daughters…! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debra responds: Rabbi Kanefsky, Though you may have changed some of the language of your earlier post, I assume you still hold what you wrote earlier to be true. Ealier you wrote: \u201d . . . Simply for lack of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14302],"tags":[27461,8354,27415,27413,1132,27414,4558],"class_list":["post-35829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-yosef-kanefsky","tag-assani","tag-brain-surgeon","tag-daily-blessings","tag-male-reproductive-organs","tag-orthodox-judaism","tag-philosophical-justification","tag-rabbi-yosef"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t