Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law: Revised and Updated Edition

Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law is a masterclass on how to grapple with complex questions of Jewish law and practice with honesty, transparency, and rigor, opening the reader's eyes to the halakhic tradition's wealth of material about gender and prayer. Dealing with questions of who can lead communal prayers and who can constitute that prayer community, the authors also model how we can use ancient and medieval sources as effective guides for contemporary communal decision-making.

This second edition includes new and updated material, including Rabbi Ethan Tucker's seminal article on category shifts in Jewish law.

In topic and orientation, this book stands at the center of what Hadar can contribute to the Jewish world: an approach to contemporary questions of gender egalitarianism rooted in ancient sources and with a variety of clear halakhic paths forward.