Monday, January 02, 2012

Orthodox Judaism treats women like filthy little things...

(...)

And there are many similar halakhot, only a few of which we have collected here. Nor have we cited everything in the name of the ones who said them, for lack of space. The readers are invited to find the references on Shabbat - and to browse around - on their own; this is a good opportunity for study. We will direct your attention to Tractate Shabbat, which does a good job of summing up halakha's attitude toward women: "a sack full of excrement" with a bleeding hole.

Some people will seek to console themselves: It's true that this is the halakha both m'doraita (from the Torah ) and m'drabanan (from the rabbis ), but that is not what is taught nowadays. But it suffices to listen to the sermon the sage Rabbi Ovadia Yosef delivered five years ago, based on the well-known halakhic work "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch": "A man must take care not to walk between two women or between two dogs or two pigs, and men should also not allow a woman or a dog or a pig to walk between them." Full story...

Don't miss:
  1. Petition to protest ultra-Orthodox discrimination against 7-year-old girl...
  2. Jewish 'modesty patrols' sow fear in Israel...
  3. Israeli rabbi bans women from driving...
  4. Fanatical Jews spew hatred at ABC reporter in Jerusalem...
  5. Child sex abuse scandal rocks Orthodox Jewish community...
  6. Israeli rabbi busted for groping sleeping woman during flight...
  7. Saudi moral committee threatens to cover “tempting” women’s eyes...

No comments:

Post a Comment