- Q. Dear Moreinu Shlit’a. We know that you are related to the Gestetner family. A group (in the N.Y. area) that also is family, wants to know what is Horav Shlomo Miller”s Shlit”a opinion in our group organizing a Hesped the coming week in memory of the Rebbetzin Ettil Gestetner O”H, wife of Hagaon Rav Nosson Gestetner zt”l, author of Lehoros Nosson that recently was niftar.
Is that a correct approach and worthy act to be “maspid” (eulogize) a woman, even if she is such a great personality? Should other women also join?
A. Our Rabbonim maintain that usually Hespedim and eulogies are also made for women, especially at the time of the Levayah (funeral) and often even in the shul itself later on and women also attend. However one should inquire what is the tradition of that particular shul.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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