Women In Traditional Jewish Society

Women in traditional Jewish society were not more fortunate than those
previously described.
In the Old Testament women were described as follows: "I applied mine
heart to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of
things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and
madness: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart
snares and nets, and her hands as bands...
[Ecclesiastes(7:25-26)]
In the Septuagint, it says, "And if a man sells his daughter to be a
maidservant, she shall not go outas the menservants do. If she pleases
not her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then shall he let
her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no
power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. And if he had
betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters. If he takes him another wife, her food, her raiment, and
her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. If he does not do these
three unto her, then shall she go out free without money".
[Exodus (21:7-11)]
Thus, if a Jewish woman got married, her guardianship was transferred
from her father to her husband and she became as one of his
possessions such as hishouse, his slave, his maidservant or his money
or wealth. Jewish teachings and laws deprived the girl of her father's
inheritance if the father had other male children. In the Old
Testament, the Septuagint, it says:
"And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, 'If a man dies, and
has no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his
daughters'."
[Numbers (27:8)]
Moreover, Jewish men never sleptin the same bed with a menstruating
woman, or ate with her or drank with her. Jewish men used to isolate
themselves fully from a menstruating woman until she was completely
free from her menses. - - ▓███▓ Translator:->
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