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Reproducing or republishing an article, in whole or in part, in any other forum requires permission of the author or the moderator. In v2n92 Alex wrote of his discomfort with female God-language. Since Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist seminaries do ordain women as rabbis, it seems appropriate to be gender-inclusive when describing rabbis generically. In any case, Daniel apparently understood what I meant. He was creating a metaphor that inadvertently excluded half its target audience.