Friday, November 20, 2009

Josephus, Eliezer ben Hercurus, and Rav Berekia on women.

Flavius Josephus wrote: "Woman says the Law, is in all things inferior to man. Let her accordingly be submissive, not for humiliation, but that she may be directed; for authority has been given by God to man."

Eliezer ben Hercurus in the Mishna said "Let the Law (Torah) be burned rather than entrusted to a woman" "Instructing a woman in the Law is like teaching her blasphemy"

And, in Midrash Tehillim, Rav Berekia: "Poor is the generation whose leader is a woman!"



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