Abstract
Rabbinic literature was written and shaped by men and the idealized human society the rabbinic sages constructed in their legal formulations was decidedly oriented towards their own sex. Few aspects of women’s lives and experiences are retrievable from this body of highly redacted texts that became the foundation of over a millennia of Jewish social, religious, and intellectual life. While most rabbinic voices agreed that women were beings quite separate from men, with lesser intellectual, spiritual, and moral capacities, and very different, often undesirable, roles to play in human society, rabbinic traditions are unanimous in praising and honouring the mothers and wives who were so crucial to Jewish survival and the smooth functioning of everyday life. In this essay I focus on rabbinic portrayals of women as wives in a variety of aggadic (non-legal) texts.
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