The Rigid Life of Orthodox Women

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom and welcome to practical spirituality here in ASA Turin the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount um today we're actually you know might as well uh slide that board a little bit just to get some more light on the room that's a good idea just careful the cable um you can put it out it doesn't have to be close to the wall anyway the uh today what we're doing is we're discussing uh the rigidity of roles in the Community for women specifically women and this is all coming with the uh this was really your idea so what's your name [Applause] ly my mother-in-law apparently has joined us your name is Lynn yes and nice to meet you Lynn and my name is y to you actually look familiar for some reason I don't know I've been coming here off and night for a year oh great so I've seen you many times oh excellent excellent and uh and so ly if you don't mind introducing your experience that you had you told us about interviewing some well um I live in California so I attend a habad there and on my visits there often a woman will come alongside me and say I don't come here very often because I can't sit with my husband I've been married for 40 years or 20 years or 10 years or 15 I've been that many times I have had inquiries so I'm like well what do you think about this you know she said well I each of them said in essence the same thing I come but it's very hard

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1. 0:02Shalom and welcome to practical spirituality here in ASA Turin the old city of Jerusalem overlooking…
2. 5:05with uh with all these like really Hoy hippies in there like everyone's all the people…
3. 9:58them what the husband it's not that hair is not supposed to be there it's that…
4. 14:52head so so her only source in shaving heads is that a woman should look disgusting…
5. 19:45been Scholars it wouldn't have been at all a risk because they would have just laughed…
6. 25:11know we don't even I don't know who that Rabbi was I'm sure I'm sure Rob…
7. 29:55in God that's a great mage message for uh those that are not Jewish you know…
8. 35:20I acknowledge every man I walk by and so I'm acknowledging each man as I walk…
9. 40:44not too many men know this but but uh but I've told some men you know…
10. 45:35for this 12 to 14 year old girl because marriage throughout all of history has been…

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