e., the acquisition of
knowledge) she comes to understand cunning, and does things on the
quiet.
_Soteh_, fol. 21, col. 2, Rashi.
Another good reason for neglecting female education those who take the
Talmud as an authority find in these words: women are light-minded,
i.e., of shallow natural endowment, on which any serious discipline
would be thrown away.
_Kiddushin_, fol. 80, col. 2.
Another argument to the same effect is, that there is no distinct
command in the law of Moses inculcating the duty; for in Deut. xi. 19 it
is merely said, "And ye shall teach them to your children," a command
which, as it passes refracted through the Rabbinic medium, becomes your
sons, but not your daughters.
Ibid., fol. 29, col. 2.
As the immediately preceding command, so interpreted, cannot be carried
out by any one not favored with male children, the well-known Talmudic
dictum acquires force and point, "Blessed is the man whose children are
sons, but luckless is he whose children are daughters."
_Bava Bathra_, fol. 16, col. 2.
A man prefers one measure obtained by his own earning to nine measures
collected by the exertion of his neighbor.
_Bava Metzia_, fol. 38, col. 1.
Nine have entered alive into paradise, and these are they:--Enoch, the
son of Jared; Elijah; the Messiah; Eliezer, the servant of Abraham;
Hiram, king of Tyre; Ebed Melech, the Ethiopian; Jabez, the son of Rabbi
Yehuda the prince; Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh; and Sarah, the
daughter of Asher.
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