I was sitting in synagogue this morning as we read the first chapters of Genesis. As we got to the story of Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve, I read the commentary below.
While potentially patriarchal in nature, the commentary was discussing reasons that a woman was created out of man's ribs.
Calling a woman a man's "helpmate" is straight out of the text, but the one that was most profound was saying that "it is through a woman that man creates children and thus achieves immortaility."
That made me appreciate my wife even more, as both a helpmate (and a great one at that!) and the vehicle for my immmortality as well.
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