Halakhah sobre II Crónicas 13:16

A further source indicating that women are barred from the monarchy is cited by Rabbi Pinchas Estherson in a contribution to Maḥazikei ha-Dat, vol. II, no. 8. The Gemara, Berakhot 49a, cites an opinion which states that Grace after Meals need not include the phrase "and on the kingship of the House of David, your annointed" because this phrase is not applicable to women or slaves. The implication of this statement is that women may not occupy royal office. Rabbi Herschensohn rejects this evidence and asserts that women are not barred from occupying the position of monarch by virtue of a direct biblical prohibition. Only when David assumed the throne did the monarchy become the exclusive prerogative of the House of David. Thereafter women were effectively precluded from serving as monarchs because the office became the legacy of male heirs. Exclusive male succession is evidenced in II Chronicles 13:5 "… for you should know that the Lord, God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, to him and to his sons …" Male succession is necessary to assure that the royal office remain a prerogative of the House of David. Since the monarchy is an inherited office and since familial as well as tribal identity is transmitted paternally, failure to exclude female descendants would have resulted in the office of king ultimately passing to heirs not of the House of David, because the children of a female monarch would not be of "her" house but of the "house" of her consort.⁹Cf., however, Minḥat Ḥinnukh, no. 497, who suggests that a woman may indeed serve as monarch in the event that she becomes heir to the throne.