Gail Heriot’s post from Proverbs (just below) was well timed. Friday evening is the time, in traditional Jewish families, that husbands and sons read or chant that passage in full, as the household gathers for the Friday night dinner and the women light the Sabbath candles. “Eshet hayil mi yimzah?…” in Hebrew; literally, “A woman of valour, who shall find?…” A moment of grace each week, for women who often led rather downtrodden lives. (So did many of their menfolk, of course.)
Gail’s citation to this passage just goes to show, as Levy’s Rye Bread used to point out, that you don’t have to be Jewish to read the King James Version.
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