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What is a Partnership Minyan?


A prayer group that includes women to the fullest extent possible within the boundaries of Jewish law
  • Women participate in the Torah reading, including leining and receiving aliyot
  • Women may lead parts of the prayer service, such as Pesukei deZimrah and Kabbalat Shabbat, as these do not contain devarim shebikedushah (Kedushah and Barchu)
Committed to observance of halacha
  • The traditional siddur is used
  • The minyan is made up of ten men
  • Women and men are separated by a mechitzah
A model followed by over 20 minyanim worldwide
  • Halachically sanctioned by the modern orthodox scholars Rabbi Mendel Shapiro and Professor Rabbi Daniel Sperber

What is the halachic backing for all this?

If you would like to learn more, please come to our programme of shiurim, which will deal with topics such as Kol Isha (a woman’s voice), and Kavod Hatsibbur (congregational dignity).

Two key modern orthodox thinkers who have found halachic solutions to these problems are Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, and Professor Rabbi Daniel Sperber. Rabbi Sperber is Professor of Talmud at Bar Ilan University, and Rabbi of Menachem Zion Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem (and winner of the Israel Prize for his work).

This model of service is new to the UK; however, if you have been to Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem, or Darkhei Noam in Manhattan, you will have seen it in action. Although it is a new addition to the modern orthodox landscape in the UK, we would love for you to come and learn how and why it is halachically permissible. 

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