[Avodah] Are any women in Tanach described as loving their husbands?

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Wed Jul 9 13:53:08 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:03:37AM -0400, M Cohen wrote:
: I get the impression from the general tone of the gemoras
: (kesuvos/yevamos/sotah/etc) that
: the nature of the husband/wife relationship (in those days) was more
: 'business-like'

You're getting an impression from legal texts that the relationship was
very legalistic. Is that a data point that says anything about how the
relationships actually were?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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