Women and Torah It’s an ancient, visceral relationship fused with love, sacrifice, and reverence. It’s also a relationship sometimes fraught with misunderstanding and frustration. In an exclusive interview with Family First, Rebbetzin Yitty Neustadt — daughter of Rabbi Ezriel Tauber; wife of a well-know posek and rav in Yerushalyim; and an ishah chashuvah in her own right — answers a wide range of questions exploring the relationship of women and Torah learning with candor and clarity.
Shattered dreams. Acute disillusion. It sounds terrible but these are the terms I feel best describe my marriage. In a gradual painful development “masmid of the yeshivah” somehow morphed into “businessman who barely opens a sefer.” I am deeply unspeakably disappointed with him — and with the diluted Torah atmosphere of my home. Is there anything I can do?
I’d like to turn the question around to you: What kind of Torah learning do you do each day? Do you work daily on cultivating a deep connection with Hashem? Are you totally invested in the Torah your neshamah needs to survive?
What about the “Torah” of women: chesed and tzniyus? Do you toil in these core obligations day and night as you’d like your husband to do with his?
If not I ask why should you expect a husband immersed in Torah? Is he a ruchniyus-producing machine dutifully spouting divrei Torah and magically creating a glorious Torah atmosphere while you sit back and enjoy the ride?
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