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www.edah.org/backend/coldfusio - [Cached]Published on: 8/9/2002 Last Visited: 9/18/2003
And our master Hida (R. Hayyim David Azulai) quotes from the book Zikhron Devarim, by our teacher R. Aharon Ha-Kohen Perahia, who quotes from an unpublished manuscript that "Deborah was a leader, as if queen," and identifies this as consonant with Rashba's opinion (Birkei Yosef on Hoshen Mishpat 7:11).
You see then that the prohibition of placing women in public office relates only to an appointment made by authority of the Sanhedrin.
In conclusion, it is clear that even according to the Sifre she may be accepted as judge, that is, leader, and she may make decisions just as one can accept a relative [as judge].
