Mothers and Children. Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe - Elisheva Baumgarten
But a gentile nurses the son of Israel while others are standing by her. And R. Barukh wrote that it seems that even if there is ...
tian relations that has not yet been taken into consideration. If Jews in north- ern France and perhaps, in a more limited fashi ...
ease their pain. R. Mordekhai b. Hillel, in his comments on tractate Avodah Zara states: “And on the Sabbath, if the Jewish woma ...
mothers of the children who gave their offspring to be nursed. The remainder of this chapter will be devoted to these women and ...
One such discussion about the spacing of children and the use of breast- feeding as a method of family planning can be found in ...
bated at length—it may be that, since contraception was seen as women’s busi- ness, and that men had an interest in letting them ...
in theory they could remarry after three months, in practice, they were often forced to wait longer, out of concern for the infa ...
were accused by their husbands of extramarital affairs were subjected to an or- deal that included the drinking of “bitter water ...
case was discussed throughout Ashkenaz and became a precedent for the gen- erations that followed. A woman from Krakow, who is c ...
ies of widows in medieval Christian society. Scholars have demonstrated the need young widows often had to remarry quickly after ...
cepted in antiquity by Palestinian Jews, and Ta-Shma suggested that R. Tam’s quoting of this reason is related to his revival of ...
in Jewish attitudes, severely restricting the remarriage of divorcées and widows was the ruling of R. Tam, in the second half of ...
Chapter Five PARENTS AND CHILDREN: COMPETING VALUES That is why a person is called a miniature world: because he resembles the w ...
Theories of Parenthood As is the case with manuals on nursing or infant care, no instruction manuals on parenthood were composed ...
“Honor your father and your mother”: Even though I said you should only honor and worship me, honor your father and your mother! ...
Another reason for the difference in attitudes and in emotional attachments to mothers and fathers can be found in a comment of ...
We owe her honor because she is the mother of our Lord. Indeed, one who does not honor the mother, without doubt will dishonor t ...
For He created people whole in body so that they can assist those who are miss- ing limbs. Just as the infant is born and does n ...
porting on what a legal authority instructed them indicates that the matter under discussion is a woman’s issue. As a rule, wome ...
press the church authorities, evoke her efforts during the early years of her son’s life: Since the boy is still an infant, he n ...
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