Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
During this first stage, the parturient is attended to by friends and, in some cases, a maid. On the Sabbath about three weeks a ...
that she should bring a sacrifice” [BT Niddah 31b]. This is a valid reason in the time that the Temple existed. But in our times ...
These two texts raise questions as to the purpose of the ritual—was it an atone- ment for sin at the time of birth? This would e ...
Bible, the sacrifice was brought to the Temple forty days after the birth of a male and eighty days after birth of a female, and ...
ing ritual was reshaped during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Mar- ian devotion became prominent.^60 The Christian c ...
birth. Christian women stayed at home for several weeks after birth. The du- ration of the lying-in period depended on custom an ...
that they were both female rituals in which women played the central roles. In both instances, women wore white and paraded in t ...
The ritual not only provided a benediction for the parturient, but was also considered a way of freeing the woman after birth fr ...
in their houses, cared for by others, and did not resume their housework or leave their homes. In addition, this period after bi ...
Other scholars have focused more on the social significance of the church- ing process. Following Arnold van Gennep and Victor T ...
icance women attached to the ritual led the rest of medieval society to view it as important. The churching ceremony and the pro ...
R. Jacob Mulin spoke of the custom of women pestering men who came to pick the baby up for a circumcision. We also saw an elemen ...
Christianity. In the case of the postpartum ritual, we must learn how Jews re- lated to the Marian elements so central to Christ ...
the difference between Jewish and Christian explanations of the postpartum rit- ual. While the Jews explained their ritual as an ...
ular social order. Unlike studies of customs that have focused only on the Jew- ish tradition, the comparative approach employed ...
Appendix THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTURIENT’S RITUAL ACCORDING TO R. JUSPA SHAMMES OF WORMS —R. Jousep ( Juspa) Schammes (1604 –1 ...
cookies that are called Brezel and some send Zucker Konfekt[sugar candies] and some send whatever they wish and they honor the p ...
Chapter Four MATERNAL NURSING AND WET NURSES: FEEDING AND CARING FOR INFANTS Most women have compassion for their children and n ...
taining to his/her care; all other questions pertaining to an infant’s well-being were marginal compared with this cardinal conc ...
of Florence and analyzed the records concerning the employment of wet nurses, the duration of children’s stays with wet nurses, ...
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