The Reason a Woman Is Obligated: Women’s Ritual Efficacy in Medieval Kabbalah

The short fragment prompting this study is a kabbalistic inquiry into three of the positive commandments in which women are especially obligated—the so-called commandments of Hannah. When accounting for these commandments in kabbalistic terms, the fragment endorses the ritual efficacy of Jewish wome...

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Main Author: Brown, Jeremy P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2023, Volume: 116, Issue: 3, Pages: 422-446
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cabala / Mizva / Woman / Ritual
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
NBE Anthropology
TH Late Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Women
B Hannah
B Ritual
B Commandments
B Kabbalah
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