Massekhet Betsah

Text, Translation, and Commentary

by Tamara Or

Extent: 191 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Jewish Studies

Series: Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2010)

ISBN: 9783161506895

Price: $118.00

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Synopsis
Contributing Authors

This book is a feminist commentary on Tractate Betsah, which deals with the laws specific to festivals. Tamara Or reveals surprising insights into the role of women in the development of halakhah. Thus, the commentary shows women’s oppression as well as their actual power and influence even on halakhic decisions. The power women possess in this tractate can be explained as emanating from the fact that most of it is based on labors usually performed by women. In nearly all the cases where the rabbis discuss the sphere of action of women, the latter’s behavior was considered halakhically correct or at least not in need of change. The power and influence gained by women through their various activities and endeavors were passed over in silence and thus hidden from the view of their descendants. The following commentary will strive to put these women back into Jewish history and into the history of the development of halakhah.

By (author) Tamara Or

Other Titles in this Series

Introduction to Seder Qodashim

A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud V

Volume 5

edited by Monika Brockhaus, Tanja Hidde and Tal Ilan

Massekhet Keritot

Text, Translation, and Commentary

Volume 5.7

by Federico Dal Bo

Tractates Tamid, Middot and Qinnim

A Feminist Commentary

Volume 9

by Dalia Marx

Massekhet Ta’anit

Text, Translation, and Commentary

Volume 9

by Tal Ilan

Massekhet Hullin

Text, Translation, and Commentary

Volume 5.3

by Tal Ilan

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