Wisteria
Questions:
- How do you identify yourself, religiously?
Torah-pursuant.
- What is your relationship status?
Married for two years.
- What, if any, questions do you have before we commence the interview?
- What is your general reaction to what you listened to?
From what I've listened to so far, there have been some things I've agreed with, but even the things I agree with are said in a way I don't agree with.
- Do you believe women are unable to understand men, and therefore unable to judge their actions?
I think that there are certain situations where both of those statements are true, but God made us different, so that, in a marriage, both people can have the perspective of each other. I think a woman should talk to her husband if he's going against Torah, and he should do the same for her, but a woman should not go to another woman's husband, and a man should not go to another man's wife.
- React to the statement, “women are a possession”.
I think, in the term of “possession”, they (women) are something to be protected and cherished, but they are not something to be trodden upon. I do not agree with their definition of “possession”.
- How do sex slaves, like Bilhah and Zilpah, prevent “the lust of the world”?
- How do you define “love”?
Marriage love is where you respect the other's person's opinions, wants and needs, and you take those things into consideration in your own life.
- Does love create crippling, unmanly weakness in men?
Haha. No. It makes them stronger because they have a wife to care for. Loving someone means you aren’t dwelling on yourself as much; you are taking care of someone else. Their perspective is not focused on only themselves.
- React “the American woman is the enemy of a man”.
What kind of American woman? There are so many kinds.
- From this podcast, what is a “Biblical” marriage?
- From this podcast, what makes a man? What makes a woman?
- What makes a good marriage?
Mutual agreement based on the same faith and a mutual desire to help each other grow.
- (If married) how does your marriage work?
In our marriage, my husband is the head of our household and the family-spokesman to the outside world, but we make decisions together, and we discuss decisions that need to be made together. Sometimes, we discuss our different opinions until we find one we can both agree with.
- How do you think this makes Israelites appear to non-Israelites?
It makes it seem that the Bible says to demean women and walk all over them. It makes it seem we think all men should have multiple wives. They make it seem that women don’t have any say in anything, and, I know some people think that men and women are equal, and I agree in some ways, but everyone has different responsibilities and jobs, and so, you can’t compare the two, in my opinion.
- Any closing thoughts/comments?
It seems like what they’re saying is that women cannot have thoughts for themselves, and that women cannot express those thoughts to their husbands. I disagree with that belief.
Raising your children in this way [the podcast], the mother would be oppressed by her children, especially her sons, because they would raise the children to believe that the mother is the bottom of the family, but, really, the children should have respect for their mother.
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