Women & Leadership
A Woman's Role
It is said in halachah (Torah law) that women doesn't have a duty to be a mother or a wife. Those rules apply more to a man because he is required to marry and have children, therefore needing a woman more than a woman needs him.
A husband must also depend on his wife's word when it comes to her menstruation or other personal things he may not see. Yet neither should dominate the other for their union is a relationship not a battle of dictatorship. A woman is supposed to be a helper to her husband, not his servant. http://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/376141/jewish/The-Role-of-Women-in-Judaism.htm |
In traditional Judaism, women are separate from men yet equal. They have different duties, but in no way do those duties lack importance compared to a man’s. It is actually thought that women have a higher level of “binah” (intuition, understanding, intelligence). Some sources even say that women are closer to God (who in their eyes is neither masculine nor feminine) than men are.
Women have had respectable positions throughout Judaism. One prime example is Miriam, the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess "spokesperson for God." http://www.jewfaq.org/women.htm http://www.jewfaq.org/moshe.htm |