Saturday, May 26, 2012

Women scribes

It is happening today that the ladies of our childrens future are designing the very word that our children want to consume to become partial to G-d in the sense that G-d is ONE and that G-d is not going to be destroyed in any sense. Of course right?
But women are not Torah scribes. It is that they can do a megilla or scribe a ketuba (marriage contract). This is a good thing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/soferet-jewish-female-scribes-receive-the-torah-on-shavuot_n_1534588.html
But according to this Huffington Post article, some ladies want to do the entire torah. A feat for them. Maybe more of a circus act really.

I wrote the following comment on this article:
“Torahs are in the holiness of the men who serve Torah. I am afraid to tell you, likely to be unpopular, but in fact truthfully correct, that the idea of a woman serving Torah in this manner is like a bean stalk that grows underground instead of to the trees.”

A comment was made that men are considered to 'dominate' women and that this is not the 'future', to which I designated the following comment:
There is no domination of women by men in any sense. Women however are under the authority of their father until the time that they marry and then they are under the authority of their husbands. That is not a method of dominance, but rather a way to keep the women safe.
The problem really actually is in the men today. They wanted to leave true judaism and practice 'reform and conservative and other' minhags of our ways of life. This is false and they should be condemned in all senses. This is what has lead to more and more women pursuing a mans place in the Jewish world such as a rabbi or reading torah and now as a scribe of the Torah. This is false and I can not think that a torah scroll constructed by a woman would hold in the world of the orthodox in any way. Its a nice thing. Perhaps a work of art, but not a Torah.
  

Either or,
Torah is not a woman's job to construct or disperse.  It is a woman's world in that the Torah is there to guide them through the men in their lives.  They can understand the stories if they want to pick up a Tanakh and read.  But they can not emit the study of the kosher condition that a man is given as his job under the heavens.  It is difficult today in the feminist driven womens rights era to discover that women are not men, but this is still the case.  Either or, the women in the lesser understanding factions of our faith today think that to have power they must possess the same skills and attributes of men.  In reality a woman who wants to be "powerful" should keep her home intact and pray for the holiness of her people.

To the person who alleged that "ink on parchment" is  a 'torah' either way you look at it, I wrote:
Men and women are not the same in spirit and form.  A man is here to fix things in the time being and a woman to fix things in the voice of her service.  There is a different capacity to lead and a different capacity spiritually to practice our faith. 
Please forgive me for a sense of being trite, but if we could just make "ink on parchment" into a Torah scroll, they would be outsourcing Torahs to china.

Added:
Women when they are scribes do a service that puts the gel into the pine trees of life.   A man when he writes puts the ranch on the map.  There is a little difference in the exact truth of the reality of the writing in terms of its written water of life.  Either or, this is not to discriminate between men and women, but really to see how the verses can be so different if written by a man or a woman.

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