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Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem's ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman's struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety three weeks on the best-seller list.Sotah introduces a family with three daughters approaching the age of marriage: Devorah, Dina and Chaya Leah. In the strict orthodoxy of their world, a Sotah is a wife suspected of infidelity who can be tried by ordeal to prove she is guiltless. Which sister could be capable of such a thought, let alone the act? Into the pious world of strict chaperoning and modest clothing, where a married woman's hair must never be seen by a man other than her husband--insinuates this serpent suggestion of evil. Ragen's powerful tale of three sisters spins endless questions: Which one? Could she? Did she? What changes could come into this orderly world because of unthinking actions?… (plus d'informations)
An exceptional story about an ultra-orthodox Israeli girl trying to escape the confines of her religious beliefs. It is a very engaging and interesting story. ( )
Naomi Ragen's descriptions of "ultra-orthodox" Jewish life in Jerusalem manages not only to be respectful, but shows the lifestyle in a positive light so that it's at least possible for the reader to understand how someone born into this world would think it (for lack of a better term) sane. At the same time, she doesn't shy away from its dark underside either, so when we follow the sisters' progress through this hard life, we are also introduced to the status- and money-hunters, the violent Modesty Patrols, and the absolute lack of privacy.
For someone like myself, who lives somewhere on the liberal side of liberal (and whose visit - yes, modestly dressed - to Meah Shearim was borderline traumatic), it's a strange, strange world, and I'm impressed with how Ragen manages to make it slightly, if not totally, comprehensible for me. It's not just a view into a normally closed world, it's a real page-turner; at no point does Ragen let her story idle - there are too many interesting people, too many interesting plot-twists, and far too many philosophical and religious ponderings for that. ( )
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The sotah, or wife suspected of infidelity, was given a trial by ordeal whose purpose was to uphold marital faithfulness and also to protect the guiltless wife from unjustified and irrational enmity and jealousy.
Introduction, Tractate Sotah, Mishnayot Nashim Edited by Phillip Blackman
If any man's wife . . . acts unfaithfully against him . . . and it be hid from the eyes of her husband . . . then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest. . . . And the priest shall take an earthen vessel and the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle . . . and put it into water. The priest shall disarrange her hair and say to her: "If no man have lain with thee and if thou has not gone aside to uncleanness . . . be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse. But . . . if some man have lain with thee besides thy husband . . . the L-rd make thee a curse and an oath among they people." . . . And He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness. . . . And it shall come to pass that if she has acted unfaithfully her belly shall swell and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman not be defiled, but be clean, then she shall be cleared. . . .
-----------------------Numbers 5, 11-28
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For Bracha, Asher, Rachel, and Akiva, with all my love and hope.
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"Yes, I understand all that!"
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And it was relatively easy to earn approval and understanding from parents and teachers. As long as they didn’t question. As long as they went along. As long as they learned, learned, learned.
Each Hasidic group had its own designated matchmaker. A Hasid of Gur would never bother to ask for a match from the matchmaker of Belz, who considered a Gur Hadid as desirable a match as an Eskimo, a Zulu, or a kibbutz farmer.
Money. Wondering why some people have so much and others so little; and why we are taught that it is not important when it seems that it is the only thing that is.
The only thing I believe in now is what I feel. And what I feel frightens me. (Dina)
Sacred objects imbued a special merit on their owners, which increased when the hands that made them were particularly worthy.
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It had some magic healing power that never failed to cheer her.
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Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem's ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman's struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety three weeks on the best-seller list.Sotah introduces a family with three daughters approaching the age of marriage: Devorah, Dina and Chaya Leah. In the strict orthodoxy of their world, a Sotah is a wife suspected of infidelity who can be tried by ordeal to prove she is guiltless. Which sister could be capable of such a thought, let alone the act? Into the pious world of strict chaperoning and modest clothing, where a married woman's hair must never be seen by a man other than her husband--insinuates this serpent suggestion of evil. Ragen's powerful tale of three sisters spins endless questions: Which one? Could she? Did she? What changes could come into this orderly world because of unthinking actions?
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