Posted by 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. Boaz (d. 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, ).
A typical example of a rabbi which knew one Maimonides’s words warranted beating a person’s wife to have a good “good” cause is actually R
Into the Muslim The country of spain, Roentgen. His ideas for the this new domineering woman would be the fact she can be hit-in purchase to coach their particular. He produces in the book Ben Mishlei: “Struck your lady rather than concern if the she tries to control you like men and you will introduces their direct [too high]. Dont, my personal young man, don’t you become your wife’s partner, when you’re your spouse might be their partner’s spouse!” Underlying their words is the fact that better lady is the one just who try subservient; the brand new crappy woman is but one who 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 looking for Porto alegre ladies 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 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).
Samuel ha-Nagid (936–1056) is among the first sages to help you recommend brand new partner so you can defeat their dominating wife so as that she stay-in their own lay
Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi (c. 1200–1263), whom approved the concept one to a husband could possibly get beat his spouse if the she transgresses: “A man should not defeat their neighbors. . The person exactly who beats his neighbor transgresses a couple bad precepts. And so it is into man who sounds his partner. The guy transgresses several bad precepts, in the event the he failed to struck her so you can reprove their own for most transgression” [stress mine] (Iggeret Teshuvah, Constantinople, 1548). Therefore Roentgen. Jonah differentiates between partner assault and you may complete stranger assault. One can possibly merely violence an individual’s wife if rationalized, however, you can never assault a person’s feminine neighbor.