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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. 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, ).

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For the Muslim Spain, Roentgen. Samuel ha-Nagid (936–1056) is one of the first sages to recommend brand new husband so you’re able to beat their dominating spouse so she remain in her put. Their ideas to your the newest domineering lady would be the fact she will be able to become hit in purchase to teach their. The guy produces in his publication Ben Mishlei: “Struck your lady in the place of hesitation in the event that she attempts to dominate you such as for instance a man and you can introduces their particular direct [too high]. Don’t, my son, not become your wife’s wife, when you’re your wife would-be their partner’s husband!” Underlying his words is that the ideal lady is the one just who try complementary; the latest crappy lady is but one that 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 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).

Jonah ben Abraham kissbrides.com the website Gerondi (c. 1200–1263), just who approved the concept you to a husband will get beat his wife if the she transgresses: “Men cannot overcome his neighbors. . The man exactly who beats their neighbor transgresses several negative precepts. Thereby it is on the guy just who sounds their wife. He transgresses a couple bad precepts, if the guy failed to hit their in order to reprove her for most transgression” [emphasis exploit] (Iggeret Teshuvah, Constantinople, 1548). Hence Roentgen. Jonah differentiates anywhere between spouse assault and you will complete stranger violence. One could just violence an individual’s wife if the rationalized, but one could never ever physical violence an individual’s women neighbors.