Rabbi Avi Geller - Are Men and Women Equal?

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

foreign very controversial issue the question of women's lib are men and women equal in the Torah egalitarian they call them right today we have special minions for women even Orthodox women not just talking about a former conservative right where they have to have their own reading of the Torah their own singing right right so my first point I want to make is that someone says I'm going to examine the Torah and see if the Torah considers men and women equal if so I accept it is not I reject it you've already rejected it before you've started because what's the source of our values right where'd you get your values from from your parents from your teachers from your friends from the books you read from the movies you saw right from the television programs right you're gonna judge if the Torah confirms to your value system or not you've already rejected the talk before you've begotten because the Torah is the source of values if you accept the Torah the word of God you've got to accept if the Torah says men and women are not equal I've got to accept that as well all right but I think you'll be very surprised so let's take a look at what the Torah says about when we started off with Adam all the animals were created male and female Adam was created only male right and then God takes the rib it makes the woman you know the joke God tells Adam I've got a wife for you she's beautiful she'll be your slave so everything you want how much does it cost normal leg well what can you get for a rip anyway anyway right the rabbi say wipe in the rib not from the mouth she

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