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11 |פתח דבר procreation but rather to deny them an opportunity to sue for divorce after ten years of a barren marriage ; even so, when put to the test, on a case - by - case basis, childless women were given the right to divorce their husbands That women's exclusion from the right to give . 4 testimony does not imply intellectual incapacity or emotional excess but is a function of their lesser social status ; thus, women could testify on behalf of other women That the law of the wayward wife, the sotah,which . 5 punished innocent as well as guilty women, but never men, was interpreted in a way that made it impossible to implement That women's disenfranchisement with respect to . 6 their father's estate turned into partial enfranchisement when the rabbis established a dowry of a one - tenth share of the father's net worth That it was not women but men who added the extra . 7 seven "white" days to the seven - day sexual separation of husband and wife each month That, according to the Talmud, women, in general, do . 8 not actively seduce men, but that men are involuntarily aroused in the presence of women, and, for that reason, may not spend time alone with them That the biblical model of compensating the victim's . 9 father for the loss of her virginity in a case of rape was abandoned in favor of a model of assault and battery, with compensation determined accordingly, and paid, in certain instances, to the victim herself That women's exemption from time - bound positive . 10 mitzvoth was replaced in the course of time with selective obligation, a move consistent with the transformation of Judaism in the post - Temple period from a Temple - based to a home - based religion… .

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