Rabbi

So the Kasar Mishnah points out on the spot that when Chazal make that drash of Melech ve'lo Malchah, they only say Melech ve'lo Malchah.

They don't say anything about all leadership positions.

They don't say anything about Sererah.

They just say Melech ve'lo Malchah, that a man can be a king, a woman cannot be a king.

So Moshe in the Chuvah, in the Gros Moshe Yerdei Chalek Beis, Tuchuvah, Simen Mem Dalen, Simen Mem Hei, suggests that maybe the Rambam is based on the Gemara Yivama stuff, Mem Hei Amad Aleph.

The Gemara Yivama says...

that the Torah does not allow us to appoint a ger as a king, but not only that, a ger is not allowed to take any position of srarah either, any position of authority.

And Ramosha says that the Rambam probably assumes that a ger and a woman have the same din, that just like a ger is not allowed to take a position of srarah, and it's not just the din of king, it's just that king is set up as the paradigmatic example of a position of srarah,

but really any other position of serara would also be included.

So too by a woman, when Hazal Darshan, Melech V'Lamelka, that's just a paradigmatic example of serara, but all types of serara would be asr.

So a couple of things to point out over here.

is how do you define Srarah?

And then we have to deal with does everyone agree to the Rambam?

So first in terms of how to define, right, the Rambam is clearly Machmir, that a woman cannot be in a position of Srarah.

So what is Srarah?

Can a woman be a head of school, of a principal of a girl's school?

So I would imagine even in the most Haredi circles, women are principals of schools, right?

So why is that allowed?

Is that a position of Srarah?

So, the definition of surah is a little bit tricky.