Women, such a big problem
Op-ed: The actual existence of women in the public domain (that is, outside the home in which they must give birth and raise children) is offensive. They hurt men’s delicate feelings, even when they are animated and lack any sexual characteristics. And if they dare choose a profession, they will no longer be able to fulfill their national religious duty.
What will they discuss? Oh, that takes us to the second minor item, the apology of the Chardal knight, the head of the Eli pre-army academy, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein.
When Rabbi Levinstein is given a microphone, these are the Divrei Torah that come out of his mouth: “Our women are holy and modest… Does that mean a woman can’t work? She can work in whatever she wants. But what’s the mission?
“The Talmud says: Building the next generation. It’s their responsibility. Our holy women are the only ones who knows how to do it. What will she be, a company commander? It’s a question of insanity, it belongs in a madhouse… Our girls have been driven crazy, they are being drafted into the army. They go in Jewish—they are not Jewish at the end, not genetically: Their entire value system will be disrupted, priorities, home-career… We must not accept this.”
The rabbi urged recruits to marry a “hot” woman, “hot in terms of her religiousness,” at an early age. “Of course’s she’s hot, because she’s a woman,” he clarified. “She did not serve in Caracal (a mixed-gender combat battalion)—otherwise, how would she be hot?”
Rabbi Levinstein’s comments (Are you a woman? The Talmud sends you to give birth and raise your children at home. Did you serve in Caracal? You are neither “hot” nor Jewish; a Jewish woman knows that she belongs at home) drew criticism from different directions.
Several days ago, the rabbi announced that he was fine with the content of his remarks and only disagreed with their style. In other words, suddenly, God knows how, the style hit him and distorted the beautiful content of his words (secular women are not Jewish, women should have children and stop nagging).
Now, the rabbi is pulling out the second weapon at the disposal of Torah sages who have been caught red-handed. “My comments,” he declared, “were taken out of context.”
What was the context? The context was that the rabbi ruled that a woman’s job was to have children and raise them (at home), for a purely spiritual purpose, and that a woman who didn’t do that was not Jewish. What people understood from his remarks unfortunately, was that a woman’s job was to have children and raise them (at home), for a purely spiritual purpose, and that a woman who didn’t do that was not Jewish.
The rabbi also felt uncomfortable with the use of a thermic term to describe girls. When he said that women serving in Caracal were not hot, his holiness did not mean that they were passionless. The honorable rabbi knows nothing about such passions. What he meant was that “there is no religious devotion in them, and for that reason they allegedly come out of the army non-Jewish.”
I must say that the thermic statement was pretty clear from his comments (“hot in terms of their religiousness”), but that among the righteous community, any talk about women in the context of passion is faulty and anyone who distance himself from it should be praised.
But pay attention to the refined term “allegedly” before the statement that women who are not hot (religious or secular) are not Jewish. It turns out that they are “allegedly” not Jewish. What does that mean? The rabbi’s God knows.
And here’s the third minor item: The Mirka'im-Hutzot Zahav billboard company removed the image of Smurfette from posters promoting the film “Smurf: The Lost Village” in the central ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, “so as not to offend residents.”
Women, it turns out again, are a very big problem. Their actual existence in the public domain (in other words, outside the home in which they must give birth and raise children) is offensive. They hurt the delicate feelings of men, even when they are animated and painted in blue and lack any sexual characteristics, and all the more so when they walk on the street, flesh and blood. If they start singing, many feelings will immediately be hurt—they will be so hurt, that men will have to be kept away from them completely. If they dare choose a profession, their body temperature will immediately drop and they will no longer be able to fulfill their national religious duty. Allegedly, of course. Allegedly.
(Translated and edited by Sandy Livak-Furmanski)
