Can a Woman Blow the Shofar?

Just what we needed to know. Thank you! So blessed that Hashem gives us His Torah and mitzvot! BH! Reply

Suppose a woman were the only competent person in a mixed group to be able to blow the shofar on RH. She is still not allowed to blow it for men, and yet if there is no woman present a man can perform one of the only mitzvot proscribed for a woman. Lighting sabbath candles.. Reply

Women and Shofar Chapter and verse of the Tanakh please only where it says women cannot use the shofar and hen it can be used. I only accept the scriptures as God's holy word. This where we need to start. chapter and verse. Reply

women blowing shofar If the overriding reason a woman is not to fulfill all positive mitzvot is her family duties, then it would follow that a single woman without such duties would be allowed to blow shofar for Rosh Hashanah Reply

Can women blow the shofar! Well it's not written in the bible, that women blew the shofar? Why is it different today? Reply

Restatement for clarity A person who is obligated in the mitzvah may also perform it for others, as long as everyone has the intent that by hearing the sounds they fulfill the mitzvah. And at this point, the only obligated ones are men.

Are women obligated?

Some opinions (by valid poskim) say that since this is a time bound mitzvah, women are not obligated. So they may blow for themselves, but not for others.

Other (perfectly valid) opinions say that women have, as a class, opted to become obligated, and therefore all women are obligated and may blow for themselves and others.

Other opinions say that each woman who opts to hear the shofar on three times that a man is obligated to hear it has now taken the obligation individually, and may blow for herself, and others with the same status.

Who is right? We each depend on how our rabbi/posek rules.

Who called Judaism an organized religion? Reply

Then what is the answer to the question? If there is no outright prohibition yet she cannot blow the shofar for a man, can she blow the shofar for women? (This is the question then?)

Is it not a mitzvot to blow the shofar in itself?

If we use this logic, then a woman should be able to blow the shofar if it did not interfere with other obligations and it was not for the purpose of allowing others to hear the shofar only (if they heard it a second time blown by a man it would be permissable) then this is OK?

Is the answer...there is no answer? Perhaps the person who asked did not want to partake in an outright violation of the law and it was not just for curiosity. Reply

In her own company? Could a woman than blow the shofar in her own company?

Or blow the shofar in the company of others as long as it was not for the purpose of the others to fufill the mitzvot of hearing the shofar? Reply

comment to overly logical logician. after twisting my untrained mind into a pretzel trying to figure out what your're saying, i realize that i can't even find "prohibition" in the rabbis response. you cite "prohibition" in giving an example of the 'fallacy'. the response meant that a woman cannot blow for a man, meaning that the man will not fulfill his obligation. she's not prohibited, it simply will not accomplish its intent. Reply

comment on "can a woman blow the shofar?" The response commits a logical fallacy.

Premise 1: if A then B.
Premise 2: A
Conclusion: Therefore, B
That is a valid argument form known a "modus ponens."

The fallacy here is to negate the antecedent ("A") and conclude that the consequent (B") must therefore also be negated (posing "not A" as the second premise and "not B" as the conclusion). That's invalid because it doesn't have to be true.

The same is true here. Prohibition does not follow from lack of positive obligation. IPerhaps there are other premises that yield the prohibition, but they are absent from the response provided to the initial question.

What are these other premises? Reply