"Blessed art thou O Lord D. Our King of the World, which has not made me a woman "
One of the" workhorse "of those who want to support the machismo of the Torah, is this blessing that appears in birkot hashachar, the blessings that are recited in the morning and are the first part of those hundred blessings on which builds the day of the Jew. Indeed, it is at least curious, that, together with blessings whose meaning is easily understood as "I did not slave", to appear thanks to D. for not making me a woman. The speech is made more complex by the fact that the Italian rite do not see the negative formula for the blessing of national belonging " that did not make me goi " as a positive formula "that made me Israel." For the blessing on our sex, women say positively: " that made me to His Will." I would suggest reading a bit ' otherwise of this blessing reflecting on another pair of blessings: those who read news and opportunities for joy and sadness. For the good news and happy occasions for saying, " that is good and does good " and the bad news and sad occasions, "Judge truth." The Sages tell us that the Gemara in the future, with the redemption, the formula " Judge of truth" will be removed and for any event you will say "that is good and does good." The Masters of Mussar, process this claim saying that the blessings, as they now reflect the human perception of reality. "Everything he does is the Merciful in the well," say the Sages, and the divine point of view there is no distinction between what we perceive as a positive event or negative event. Each event, as interaction of D. with your world will cause the Sanctification of the Name of D., at times so that we see as positive, sometimes, D. forbid, so that we see as negative or tragic. According to the Masters of Mussar what will change in the future will be our perception. We finally arrived at a level from being able to say, however, that D. " is good and does good . The Torah knows the mind of man and does not require us to say something that is totally contrary to our perception. Moreover you imagine a person to whom an accident happens that says " that is good and does good ? It seems to me that here there is a great lesson about the nature of male and female. Men and women have equal dignity in the Torah, the rights and fundamental difference in the importance of their roles. It is undeniable that in some ways the woman's task is more onerous and less apparently rewarding. And it is undeniable that this is what yours truly writes from a male point of view, however well prepared and try to be balanced. So also the sages tell us that the world can not exist without males and females, and even so, blessed are those who have sons, and woe to those who have daughters. The man, male, not fully comprehend the role of women. It sees sides "negative" or harsh or speaking from the male point of view very rewarding. And it is the male point of view consistently blessing "that made me a woman." It takes the Bina yetirà , superior intelligence that God gave to women to say " that made me according to His Will . Well, hold for a moment: would not be more profound in any case, thank God for making me according to His Will? There's a world behind this blessing. Acceptance of the Will of D. as superior to any human evaluation, the nature of our total submission to the Will of D. etc. But that only women can fully understand it. We men, rightly, we can only see things from men and bless " that I did woman." Perhaps this is the first of the seven blessings which we bless the newlyweds (after wine) is that that says " who created all things to His Glory . As if to remind men and women when they come together only to be returning to that which was created by the Lord, that in this dispute "Halacha" between men and women, each with its own out of obligation blessing, but maybe in the future will tell all " that made me according to His Will .
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