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- The Meal - Washing, Eating and Benching
- Washing at the End of the Meal and Zimun
Question
Hi! thank you so much for answering and all of your hard work.
You said that in a case of 3 women and 2 men that, the women can do a zimun. What is the source for that?
Also is your case only if they are from the same family or is it also if the 2 men are from a different family.
Thanks again!
Answer
ב"ה
Shalom,
I wrote , that the Mishna Brura (199:18) says in the name of the Shulchan Aruch of the Ba'al Hatanya (Rav Shnior Zaman zt"l), if there were THREE men and THREE women, the women don't have to answer the zimun of the men, but the women may do the zimun amongst themselves.
I wrote about 3 men, so I don't know where you saw 2=two men, so neither do I understand your second question. Please clarify what you are referring to.
The source for allowing women to do zimun among themselves is in the Shulchan Aruch.
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