On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:27:49 +0000 (UTC), aka
Suzy Cohen the th*ck Irish ***** wrote:
On 18-Dec-2006, Yisroel Markov <ey.markov@MUNGiname.com> wrote:
The bracha means that everyone recognizes that women
have greater burdens than men.
The explanation in Menakhot 43b presents it as a case of "who is
obligated in more mitzvot?" Thus the order of those brakhot in the
siddur is "Thank you for not making me a gentile, a slave, a woman" -
in the order of increasing number of commandments.
Yes, I've heard this, too, of course.
But I learned the first explanation... first.
The only way I see to reconcile it with what you said above is to
understand "burdens" to mean things other than mitzvot - women have to
do more difficult things than men (childbearing/rearing being the most
obvious one),
Yes, that sort of thing.
The idea that we can die doing it comes to mind....
Suzy
You haven't died getting reared yet, you th*ck Irish *****.
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