757 | Women’s Recitation of the Kaddish women from saying Kaddish despite the possibility of permitting it, it will strengthen the influence of Reform and Conservative rabbis . Hence, it is forbidden to prevent women from saying Kaddish… . 4 The argument, though negative, is nonetheless powerful, and uses the same logic that was expressed by R . Yaakov Yehiel Weinberg, in his Seridei Esh Vol . Jerusalem 962, responsum 8, pp . 5 - 7, when permitting mixed singing 2, between boys and girls, under specific circumstances, for insistence on “this prohibition is likely to cause women to become distant from religion, Heaven forbid . ” Rav Soloveitchik’s ruling was somewhat surprising, since it was opposed to that of the great seventeenth - century decisor, R . Yair Hayyim Bachrach ( 638 - who in his Teshuvot Havat Yair, sect . 222, later cited in R . Hezkiah , ) 702 Medini’s Sedei Hemed : Maarechet Aveilut sect . 60, outrightly forebade it . One of Bachrach’s arguments is that if we permit th...
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