Sexism is quite rampant in the Torah, considering the Hebrews were once a very chauvinistic society when it was written. As a feminist, I find it my duty to site the following verses and remind fellow women of the sexist pig they are told to worship. I can not possibly list all of the...
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The laws about virginity in this week’s Torah portion are rooted in the same two principles: that it is evil for a female to have sex with anyone except her eventual husband, and that women are controlled by their men—first their fathers, then their husbands. These two assumptions are n...
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of Israelites spy out the land of Canaan; their discouraging report sends them back into the desert for an additional 38 years, during which the Israelites continue to behave badly, rebelling against the authority of Moses and his brother Aaron, and having illicit relations with Moabite women. ...
Jacob divided his camp into two companies. In one company went all of his livestock, and in the other went his family and other possessions. (We can know the general scheme of division because verses 22 and 23 say that all four women and eleven sons were still with him after he had se...
All About Appreciation The Seder is all about reliving the Egypt experience and making it come alive. Among the focal points of the Haggadah readings are verses and expositions tracing our history to and from Egypt: אֲרַמִּי אֹבֵד אָבִי, ו...
And, assuming that there is indeed a reasonable answer, then what about this: is it not possible — given the mores of the modern world — that some young women and girls in our communities might interpret the exclusion of feminine images from Torah publications as symptomatic of a society ...
We read in Parshat Vayeshev all about Yosef HaTzadik. The verses describe Yosef as an “Ish Matzliach”: a “Man of Success”. What is the secret of Yosef’s success? Rashi brings the midrash which describes how Yosef’s master Potifer observed Yosef constantly whispering something under ...
The Scroll teaches about the history of the late Second Temple period, more than about the biblical book of Habakkuk. Since usually the prophetical verses were considered as allusions to the future historical events in the life of God’s people, the author of 1QpHab 11.2-8 actualizes the ...