Thursday, November 5, 2009

Kabbalah Girl Power

This is from the Babylonian Talmud, a widely used 4th century Kabbalah text.

See how marvelous is a good woman! For it is in her that the Divine Will is exemplified.

2 comments:

dana said...

hm. I have to say that "girl power" was not the first thing I thought of. "good woman" brings up too many images of housewife and more children than a rational person can handle.

and then I think, maybe I should be reading different things online.

Katherine C. Teel said...

The great thing about Kabbalah and other mystical texts is that there's not a lot of authoritative teachings on how to interpret these things--because they themselves are largely outside of the mainstream of the tradition. So, Babylonian dude might have meant "cooking, cleaning, raising babies, etc," but that doesn't mean I have to mean it that way!