Poseket

[ZELDA STERN]

Dear All,

Do any Partnership Minyanim have a woman in the position of Poseket or Halachic Advisor?

Zelda R. Stern
Member, Darkhei Noam, New York City

[Sharon Weiss-Greenberg]

I'm pretty sure that there aren't any.  Some partnership minyanim do not have any posek.  Some have a long-distance posek.  If partnership minyanim are going to become mainstream, I think that it would be important to address the lack of clergy.   -Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

[Alexandra Benjamin]

Shira Hadasha does not have, and has never had a single posek/et. We have instead a vaad halacha made up of 5-6 individuals including men and women. they make halachic recommendations to the Kehilah. 

To the other point you raise I would say that for us the lack of clergy is not a failure or weakness but a choice. in every aspect of our Kehilah - including halachic decisions - we choose to depend on an educated laity. One of the values we take from feminism is a more inclusive model of leadership from multiple sources rather than a single - or a couple - of voices. 

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[Miriam Schacter]

Minyan Shachar in Riverdale in the Bronx, has 4 individuals - 2 women and 2 men, who constitute our halachic advisory group. 

[Rori Picker Neiss]

Before moving to St. Louis, I was the sole halakhic decisor of our partnership minyan in Brooklyn, although I founded it so

That might be a skewed result...

Maharat Rori Picker Neiss

Director of Programming, Education, and Community Engagement
Bais Abraham Congregation
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[Sharon Weiss-Greenberg]

Excellent news!  Let's keep adding on to this list. 

In terms of clergy's presence, I definitely understand and have regularly heard the appeal of attending a non-clergy run service. I wonder if the partnership minyan "movement" would grow and broaden its audience if we had some with clergy positions. Especially in the Orthodox community, many constituents want a rabbi/rabba.

[Dov Weinstock]

I would guess that while some/many congregants want a posek/et, it might be more for their personal issues rather than communal ones. If so, the availability of one or more poskim/ot - either within the community or outside it - would be a positive feature, but that does not mean that those poskim/ot need to be the official rabbi/rabba for the minyan.

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[Simon Weintraub]

This may also relate to differences between Israel and Diaspora. At Darchai Noam in Modiin we have a system similar to Shira Hadasha in which we have a committee that looks into halachic issues, explores future change, etc… and essentially just makes recommendations to the kehilla which then result in study groups and sometimes a decision by the entire kehilla if it is regarding a change in practice. I don’t think there is much desire for clergy at Darchai Noam and most other Orthodox shuls in Modiin also don't have a Rabbi.

 

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[Sharon Weiss-Greenberg]

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