tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post3618285199177713844..comments2024-03-25T09:43:27.402-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: the shelo asani issue non-controversyChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-46298308882376370312011-08-26T09:51:05.672-04:002011-08-26T09:51:05.672-04:00I agree. Your point is valueble for me, too.
Hon...I agree. Your point is valueble for me, too.<br /><br />Honestly, it's getting play because when you write a valuable piece on mechikas hasheim and get only three or four letters from people with scrap gold in their drawers, you start feeling like you're giving a drasha in a beis hakvoros. Since smut and libel are not options, feminist issues will have to do.bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-36571905088410496642011-08-25T03:46:41.194-04:002011-08-25T03:46:41.194-04:00have the allied feminists tried
viewing the brac...have the allied feminists tried <br />viewing the bracha in the following ways, that might lessen or even remove any insult?<br />1) as a needed boost to "the male ego", just for him to keep even;<br />2) as, not the expression of men's<br />gratitude for additional mitzvos, but the very installation of<br />"gratitude": men are ingrates, if<br />not beasts--they must be trained<br />each daybreak, & none too soon!<br /><br />...but these maintain the battle-of-the-sexes, so we have, o.t.o.h.,<br /> <br />3) if Jewish man is kindly to goy, merciful to aved, bashful with isha(the 3 simanim), he may need to be <br />daily reminded (repeatedly convinced) to exercise distance,<br />authority, & pride respectively, <br />regarding these 3...<br /><br />{generally speaking, the halachic superiority of men is so evident,<br />so pervasive, that "gender equality" is not even a "case closed": the case cannot Torahwise be opened! <br />or did Tzelafchad's daughters <br />permanently jam their collective foot in the beis din door, for all manner of future challenge?}Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com