en will participate in the actual service at synagogue (Koltun 36).
             Much of the same criteria that was reasoned for women not having Bat Mitzvahs, or being included in a minyan, are the same ideas that lead to the objection of women being ordained as rabbis. Although there is no direct Halachic objection to women becoming rabbis, (Greenberg 20-1) it is interpreted that a woman may not act as a witness, or take part in a minyan. Some interpret specific verses in the Halachah as a minyan consisting of 10 people for whom it is an obligation to pray, but since praying is a time-bound mitzvot, women are not obligated to do this. Therefore, if women were ordained as rabbis they could not take part in the minyan of their own synagogue (Greenberg 112). In relation to being witnesses, a rabbi is often called on to testify as a witness when concerning a get, or a trial for divorce. Seeing as a woman is prohibited from being a witness, a female rabbi would therefore be performing illegal duties (Greenberg 117). Although these two
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