101: Women and Judaism

This first episode of The Knitting Pilgrim talks deals with the section of the Judaic window depicting a female figure wearing a prayer shawl, tefillin, and blowing a shofar: all rituals, according to the Orthodox tradition, reserved for men. But are women actually excluded from these practices? Kirk speaks with Rabbi Jennifer Gorman about what Judaism actually says about women's place in the faith.

"If you are involved in a mitzvah, you are then exempt from doing another mitzvah that would preclude the first one. So, raising children is itself a mitzvah, a commandment. And so if you’re too busy doing that, and that means that you cannot physically do another one while you are doing that, you become exempt from it. " -- Rabbi Jennifer Gorman