May 19, 1989 • Page Image 31
…For Men Only! ritual impurity during menstruation would affect her as a rabbi. Greenberg argued a woman rabbi would not transmit ritual impurity to the Torah, or to a place, or to her pulpit, or to other Jews simply by be- ing on a bimah. She said the impact of the mechitza — the physical bar- rier separating the sexes in the Orthodox synagogue — and the differences between men and women in liturgical obligations are much more powerful within...…

















































