Domestic life Women in Judaism

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jewish marriage certificate, dated 1740 (brooklyn museum)


marriage, domestic violence , divorce topics discussed jewish sages of medieval world. marriage important institution in judaism (see marriage in judaism). sages of period discussed topic @ length.


rabbeinu gershom instituted rabbinic decree (takkanah) prohibiting polygyny among ashkenazic jews. @ time, sephardic , mizrahi jews did not recognize validity of ban.


the rabbis instituted legal methods enable women petition rabbinical court compel divorce. maimonides ruled woman found husband repugnant ask court compel divorce flogging recalcitrant husband because not captive, subjected intercourse 1 hateful . furthermore, maimonides ruled woman may consider herself divorced , remarry if husband became absent 3 years or more. prevent women married traveling merchants becoming agunah if husband never returned.


the rabbis instituted , tightened prohibitions on domestic violence. rabbi peretz ben elijah ruled, cry of daughters of our people has been heard concerning sons of israel raise hands strike wives. yet has given husband authority beat wife? rabbi meir of rothenberg ruled that, way of gentiles behave thus, heaven forbid jew should so. , 1 beats wife excommunicated , banned , beaten. rabbi meir of rothenberg ruled battered wife petition rabbinical court compel husband grant divorce, monetary fine owed on top of regular ketubah money. these rulings occurred in midst of societies wife-beating legally sanctioned , routine.








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