One day, we will be ready to have the discussion about abolition, emancipation and manumission in the context of women in Jewish marriage.
Much of the current discussion focuses on manumission--the man voluntarily setting his wife free--as the ideal outcome. Is this really our best aspiration?
#Funfact: the document to release a slave and to release a woman are both called a get. The word for slaveowner and husband are both "ba'al."
The only people I've seen, so far, who translate the word "get" as "writ of manumission" are @cwjisrael's founder and executive director @susanweiss, and @GailLabovitz. I now do too. It is important to be precise with our terminology if we want to accurately diagnose the problem.
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