re: #117 Destro

Not according to Leviticus.

Your arrogance is boundless.

Are you really telling one of the few Yeshiva educated Jews on this board what is and is not in Jewish law and has or has not been Jewish practice for thousands of years? Why yes you are!

It’s amazing! It is also further prima facie evidence that you don’t know any observant Jews.

Your ignorance is also showing by that comment. Of course, it is the tragic ignorance that thinks itself expert. Pride goeth and all that….

The book is called Vayikra. It is not Leviticus. Leviticus is a selectively translated text of another religion, that purposefully discounts the Oral Law.

Vayikra is not to be read without the context of the Oral Law.

However, even in selective translation, there is no prohibition against women reading, writing or owning property. Moses himself orders that single women can inherit land.

In the book before, God out and out tells Abraham that his wife Sarah is a greater prophet than he is, and orders him to “listen to her voice in all things.”

A little further on is a psalm that talks a lot about how the great Jewish Woman of Valor, is wise and charitable, buying and selling fields, working hard and producing cloth, and all while being an awesome mother. In modern terms, the ideal of the “woman who has it all” in terms of career and family.

But you see, to know that, you would actually have to read the book.

But you didn’t - and certainly not with the commentary from the Talmud and the Midrash. And again, that is prima facie obvious.

How about we don’t flitter around the goal posts. I am very curious if you can process the questions I gave you. Can we stick to that?