Toralesung und die Frau: ein rabbinisches Dilemma

May women participate actively in the Torah reading on Shabbat morning? Both the Tosefta (Megillah 3:11) and the Talmud (Megillah 23a) address this issue, and both contain the same contradiction: while at first women are included in the quorum of seven needed for the ritual, in the next breath they...

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Main Author: Rhein, Valérie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: Univ. [2014]
In: Lectio difficilior
Year: 2014, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-62
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Worship service / Torah / Reading aloud / Woman
B Feminist exegesis / Judaism / Tosefta. Megillah / Talmûd bavlî
B Judaism / Worship service / Torah
B Rabbinic Judaism
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Women in Judaism
B Reading in public worship Bibliography
B Torah Reading
B Bible. Joshua 1-12
B Peer reviewed
B Bible. Deuteronomy 29-34
B Judaism Liturgy
B Open access
B Bible. Nehemiah 7-13
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Summary:May women participate actively in the Torah reading on Shabbat morning? Both the Tosefta (Megillah 3:11) and the Talmud (Megillah 23a) address this issue, and both contain the same contradiction: while at first women are included in the quorum of seven needed for the ritual, in the next breath they are disqualified from reading in public. What motivated the sages to say “All are qualified to be among the seven [who are called to the Torah and read from the Torah on Shabbat morning], even a woman and even a minor [...]” only to follow the statement with a refusal to integrate women into the synagogal ritual of Keriat haTorah? An examination of women’s presence in biblical depictions of public Torah reading (Deuteronomy 31:10–13; Nehemiah 7:72–8:3; Joshua 8:30–35) suggests possible answers to this question.
ISSN:1661-3317
Contains:Enthalten in: Lectio difficilior