Reply To: Feminism

From what I remember learning; Ezer k’negdo does not mean that the wife is supposed to ‘decide’; “Now is the time to be ‘for’ my husband” and then at some other time, ‘decide’ the opposite.

As I remember learning, it is something that is part of nature and

is a divine consequence, of the husband doing what is right or wrong, in H-sh-m’s eyes.

It is like saying that if a stream flows through a certain path, that is where the water will go.

If the stream is diverted, then the water will flow through the new path.

There is no one paskening that Al Pi Halacha, the water

is ‘required’ to flow in the new direction, or praising the water for ‘obeying the halacha’, or punishing the water, for ‘not obeying’.

It just goes with the flow, as they say.