Zemah ben Paltoi, Gaon of Pumbedita (872–890), “calls upon a man to flog his wife if she is guilty of assault.” Rabbi Yehudai b. Nahman (Yehudai Gaon, 757–761) writes that: “…when her husband enters the house, she must rise and cannot sit down until he sits, and she should never raise her voice against her husband. Even if he hits her she has to remain silent, because that is how chaste women behave” (Ozar ha-Ge’onim, Ketubbot 169–170). The ninth-century Gaon of Sura, Sar Shalom b. c. 859 or 864), distinguishes between an assault on a woman by her husband and an assault on her by a stranger. The Gaon of Sura’s opinion was that the husband’s assault on his wife was less severe, since the husband has authority over his wife (Ozar ha-Ge’onim, Bava Kamma, ).
For the Muslim Spain, Roentgen. Samuel ha-Nagid (936–1056) try one of the primary sages so you’re able to recommend this new partner in order to overcome his controling wife in order for she stay in their unique put.
His attitude on the the newest domineering woman is the fact she can become hit-in acquisition to teach their unique. The guy writes in the book Ben Mishlei: “Strike your spouse instead of doubt in the event the she tries to control you particularly a guy and raises her head [way too high]. Usually do not, my young buck, don’t you end up being your wife’s wife, while you are your wife was their particular husband’s husband!” Hidden his terms and conditions is the fact that ideal lady is certainly one just who is actually subservient; the latest crappy woman is certainly one that is disputatious.In the following period, known as that of the “ Rabbinic authorities/halakhic decisors/ biblical commentators of the mid-11 th to mid-15 th c.. The period of the rishonim followed that of the geonim and preceded that of the a h aronim. Rishonim ,” Moses ben Maimon (Rambam), b. Spain, 1138 Maimonides (1135–1204) recommends in his Code, the Mishneh Torah she-bi-khetav : Lit. “the written Torah.” The Bible; the Pentateuch; Tanakh (the Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographia) Torah , that beating a bad wife is an acceptable form of discipline: “A wife who refuses to perform any kind of work that she is obligated to do, may be compelled to perform it, even by scourging her with a rod” (Isshut ). Some rabbis, such as Shem Tov b. Abraham ibn Gaon (d. Safed, 1312), in his commentary Migdal Oz on Maimonides, understand the referent to be the rabbinic court (beit din), since the word “force” (kofin) is in the plural, rather than the singular. However, most commentators concur that Maimonides means that it is the “husband” who can force her. R. Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa, the cute teen girls indonesian well-known fourteenth-century interpreter of Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah, writes in the Maggid Mishneh that “Nahmanides wrote that we force her with a stick and it is also the view of Rabbenu (i.e., Maimonides) and the major rabbis.” It should be noted that Maimonides was most liberal in grounds for divorce, allowing sexual incompatibility, “me’is alai” (lit. “He is repulsive to me”) as grounds (cf. also Ket. 63b).
Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi (c. 1200–1263), which acknowledged the concept one to a partner will get overcome his partner when the she transgresses: “A man ought not to beat his neighbors. . The guy who beats his neighbors transgresses two negative precepts. And so it’s into man exactly who beats his wife. He transgresses a couple bad precepts, in the event that the guy did not struck their unique to reprove their unique for some transgression” [focus mine] (Iggeret Teshuvah, Constantinople, 1548). Hence Roentgen. Jonah distinguishes anywhere between spouse assault and you can complete stranger violence. One can just assault one’s spouse if the rationalized, but it’s possible to never assault an individual’s feminine next-door neighbor.
