Q&A: Are There Any Proper Women Nowadays?
Are There Any Proper Women Nowadays?
Question
After all, they all violate their obligations toward their husbands according to Jewish law, except perhaps for a tiny handful, like in the days of Elijah and Obadiah.
Answer
I did not understand this bizarre question.
Discussion on Answer
Are the Mishnah and the Talmud, and Maimonides who summarized them, bizarre?
And so that the Rabbi will understand this time, see for example here:
https://he.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%91%22%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%98%D7%95
https://he.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%91%22%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9B%D7%90
In short, what is the status of women nowadays who do not act according to Jewish law?
It seems to me that I will delete this thread unless you clarify what you mean and do not send me to Maimonides. I know Maimonides too, and I still do not see a question here.
It is not Maimonides; it is Jewish law as brought in the Mishnah and the Talmud, and ruled in Maimonides and the Shulchan Arukh.
The question is simple—if there are no women nowadays who keep the laws that apply to women, are there any proper women at this time?
If a man does not keep Jewish law, his definition is clear. I am asking what about women.
If, for example, a woman does not wash her husband's feet when he returns home, or refuses to have relations with him because of excuses like a headache or tiredness, she is violating Jewish law. I do not understand what is so complicated for the Rabbi.
It really does seem that you do not understand, if you truly think a woman is obligated to wash her husband's feet. That is a very troubling misunderstanding, and I hope you are not married.
Sorry for stepping in between two giants and butting into the discussion. But with all due respect, Rabbi, I assume Your Honor waived foot-washing from your rebbetzin; that may perhaps be an act of special piety, but certainly one does not instruct the public that way!
Those who keep Jewish law and the pure outlook are careful about this, and woe to us if we do not take care to preserve these customs written by the great sages, before whom we are but dust under their feet—and may we not, Heaven forbid, come to bankruptcy.
And the halakhic decisors of the Holy City even discussed whether she should anoint her husband's feet even during her days of menstrual impurity, but they concluded that since these people customarily wash feet only once every two weeks, it is better not to get into difficulties and they should synchronize his conjugal duty with her time.
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Married to a criminal, like all the women of this generation. And woe to the generation whose rabbis encourage rebellion against Jewish law, as in the days of Elijah.
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