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Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism (Paperback)
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The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed
at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has
served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided a
rationale for women's centrality at home and their absence from the
synagogue. Departing from dominant popular and scholarly views,
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander argues that the rule was not conceived
to structure women's religious lives, but rather became a tool for
social engineering only after it underwent shifts in meaning during
its transmission. Alexander narrates the rule's complicated
history, establishing the purposes for which it was initially
formulated and the shifts in interpretation that led to its being
perceived as a key marker of Jewish gender. At the end of her
study, Alexander points to women's exemption from particular
rituals (Shema, tefillin and Torah study), which, she argues, are
better places to look for insight into rabbinic gender.
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