In a new pamphlet titled “Who Created Me As He Willed,” Rabbi Zvi Tau reportedly writes that “home is the natural habitat for women to express their special tendency ... not the domain of social activity. At home, without the bustle ... is where a woman can fully live her life.”
A Woman’s Place Is In The Home, Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Claims
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A woman’s place is in the home, in the kitchen, stocking footed (God forbid she should show her toes) and pregnant.
That is essentially the position of one of Israel’s leading Zionist Orthodox rabbis, Zvi Tau, head of Har Hamor Yeshiva and a leader of the so-called haredi wing of Zionist Orthodoxy, Ha’aretz reports.
In a new pamphlet titled “Who Created Me As He Willed,” Tau reportedly writes that “home is the natural habitat for women to express their special tendency ... not the domain of social activity. At home, without the bustle ... is where a woman can fully live her life.”
Tau believes that women should not receive too much education because that would "harm the quality of life of the nation."
Women shouldn’t busy themselves with "the depths of science and morals.” Instead, Tau claims, their role is to have children and raise them. This is a woman’s "natural vocation, and God created within her the necessary talents and an inner orientation for these issues.”
The worldwide trend of allowing women equality and full education brings only short term benefit, Tau says. But in the long run it "will harm the quality of life of the nation and society, since the true female character will not be realized and will be missed by the world. Society and the nation should rather be built on perfecting the special attributes imprinted in women."
Children born to career women will turn out to be "weak and flaccid,” Tau reportedly wrote.
"Home is the natural habitat for women to express their special tendency ... not the domain of social activity. At home, without the bustle ... is where a woman can fully live her life."
Tau supported former President Moshe Katsav when he was accused of rape, urging him not to resign his office.
He showed no empathy or sympathy for Katsav’s victims then or even after the trial that convicted Katsav, who lost his appeals and is now imprisoned in the yeshiva wing of an Israeli prison.