"A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband,……" — Israel Shenker
"A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties."
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20 Quotes by Israel Shenker
Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site.
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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity,…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably,…
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of…
— Janet Morris
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly…
— Meher Baba
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
— Horace Mann
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in…
— George Washington
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept…
— Laozi
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
— Karch Kiraly
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The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
— Frederic Ozanam
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement…
— Marianne Moore
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
— Henry Lawson
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