Reply To: Oh, they just wanna be like men

Torah613Torah:

Hi. 🙂

That was wordy, but basically you’re saying that there is no real difference between women and men, except the roles dictated by halacha, which just so happen to reflect certain biological realities?

That was not what I was trying to say. I didn’t use all those words for no reason, you know.

Halacha is Jewish values. Halacha is not egalitarian. Ergo, egalitarianism cannot be “taken in tandem with good old fashioned Jewish values”.

Insomuch as I am familiar with the halachic process, halacha is not (in principle) derived from “Jewish values.” Halacha should be the sole arbiter of Jewish values, but as I outlined above, I do not think that is the reality. And let’s not quibble about terminology. When I use the words “egalitarianism” and “feminism,” I mean only exactly what I have outlined above, without regard to other definitions you may have have in mind.