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There were like 30 people in the room for havdalah and this queer coffeehouse.
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In 1983, at the National Havurah Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, Falk acquiesced, with high uncertainty and trepidation, to write and use her own non-traditional blessings for a havdalah ritual marking the end of the Sabbath.
Celebrating Women's History Month: Jewish Women and Religious Innovation 2010
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On Friday afternoon, my friend Arthur Waskow asked me to help him prepare the havdalah ritual, the brief but dramatic ceremony that closes the Sabbath.
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The next night, in a darkened hall lit only by the multi-wicked candle of the havdalah ritual, I recited four new blessings, in Hebrew and in English, before a community of 300 Jews of almost every religious persuasion, from atheist to modern Orthodox.
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We decided that we were going to have a havdalah [ceremony to mark the end of the Jewish Sabbath] coffeehouse.
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Women may recite the entire havdalah service, if they choose, as a voluntary mitzvah.
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According to the Shulhan Arukh, “Women are obligated to participate in havdalah just as they are obligated to participate in kiddush,” but the text notes that some disagree on the grounds that havdalah is not included in the biblical Sabbath laws and is therefore not obligatory upon women (Orah Hayyim 296: 8).
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As a result, some poskim (rabbinical decisors) obligate women in havdalah (blessing at termination of Sabbaths and festivals) because of its connection to the biblical Sabbath but others claim it is only a rabbinic commandment and exempt women (Encyclopedia Talmudit, Isha 249: 1).
Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Even something as basic as making a blessing for havdalah is considered problematic by some (Isserles, O.H. 689: 8), who claim that only men can make it for her, while others permit her to make the blessing for herself (Encyclopedia Talmudit, Isha 250: 2, note 343).
Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Therefore, R. Moses Isserles stated in his gloss on this ruling that women are not required to recite havdalah on their own but may listen to havdalah recited by men (Rema, Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 296: 8).
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