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Article: Sounds of silence.(Parenting)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2007
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Before they could receive the law of God, Moses said to the Israelite men: "Be ready in three days; do not approach a woman." And so it began--first the exclusion, then the excuses. At one of Judaism's holiest moments--the giving of the Torah--women were untouchables. Since then it's been a long exile for women from Jewish ritual. But during that exile we never stopped watching, listening and waiting for the opportunity to reclaim Judaism. I tell Anna and Adam that that moment has fully arrived.
The writer and feminist thinker Judith Plaskow observes that Moses' warning in Exodus is "one of the places in the Bible where women's silence is so deeply charged, so ...
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