tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post8377848797216059679..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: A question for the Taliban womenjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-32671115792721268892011-12-08T05:06:49.320-05:002011-12-08T05:06:49.320-05:00I don't know why you say it tongue-in-cheek. L...I don't know why you say it tongue-in-cheek. Le-shitatan, this is indeed what she should be doing. The whole custom of covering entirely, which existed in Ancient Persia, Babylonia, and Greece, and still persists among Afghani and Pakistani clans, is a concession, in times of need, to the general rules of <i>purdah</i>, which means not leaving the house. See <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/naim/txt_naim_hijab.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a> for example. By definition, if you are a burka-kind of person, you don't go shopping, you don't walk your kids to school or whatever. You stay at home and have maids do all the work. You only go out, in a closed carriage or, at the very worst, a burka, to visit your relatives once in a blue moon. Exactly what the Rambam says. But they won't do that, obviously, because deep inside their values are, like it has been said, fundamentally "modern" : they want to go out, to make their own rules, to be independent. It's similar to what happens among the Muslim youths in Europe who take on the hijab or the niqab: it is explicitly a way for them to emancipate from the parents' traditional practices (which include forced marriages) by embracing what they think is "true Islam", advocating female emancipation through veiling. To all this I say: give us a break, will you?Chanokhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-35865917542115408402011-12-07T14:40:08.568-05:002011-12-07T14:40:08.568-05:00heh.
Yes, I was debating with myself whether to i...heh.<br /><br />Yes, I was debating with myself whether to include this Ben Ish Chai.<br /><br />At any rate, I discuss it in a parshablog post from back in 2008, <a href="http://parsha.blogspot.com/2008/09/oz-vehadar-levushah-did-rachel-really.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>:<br /><br />http://parsha.blogspot.com/2008/09/oz-vehadar-levushah-did-rachel-really.html<br /><br />Most meforshim would not agree with the Ben Ish Chai, and it tells us more about the Ben Ish Chai and the surrounding Iraqi culture than it tells us about Rachel Imeinu.<br /><br />kol tuv,<br />joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-55374528348085700052011-12-07T14:27:44.789-05:002011-12-07T14:27:44.789-05:00Re: Rahel Imeinu, it may not be a proof since she ...Re: Rahel Imeinu, it may not be a proof since she went out completely covered by the sheep - not in front or in back of them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ladaat.net/siteimages/fl_4ed6873521ec7.pdf" rel="nofollow">Source (on p.2)</a>:<br /><br />נראה לי בס"ד, דרך הרועה שילך אחרי הצאן, כדי שיהיו כל הצאן לנגד עיניו, ולא<br />יוכל אדם לחטוף מן הצאן כלום, שבזה תהיה עין השגחתו עליהם בטוב.<br />אך רחל אמנו ע"ה לא היתה נוהגת כשאר רועים ללכת אחרי הצאן, אלא היתה<br />הולכת בתוך הצאן באופן שתהיה מוקפת מן הצאן בכל צדדיה, כדי שיתכסו<br />פסיעותיה הנאות בצאן מכל צד, ולא יהיה נראה חצי התחתון של גופה לעוברים<br />ושבים וההולכים במדבר, והיא היתה עושה זאת משום צניעות.yaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179304707239865515noreply@blogger.com