Reply To: Women- a golus and Geula paradigm

True but their greatness was accomplished by diminishing themselves. Just like the moon.

For example Rabbi Akivas wife Rochel. She was so great because she lost all her wealth and family support to marry him and then slaved away 24 years in utter poverty, raising the children by herself (and giving up on having more probably).

Because of her self sacrifice, she was credited with all the Torah learned.

Jewish woman were always treated better than their non Jewish counterparts. But there still was a hierchy. Husband and then wife. Just take the phrase mshubedes labaal. Both those words connote she is beneath him. Yet that was also her greatness and she was lauded by putting herself aside to build klal Yisrael

By Geula women will still be feminine but the feminine will be valued as equal.the world has definitely shifted in that direction both spiritually and on a world scale.