Elior argues that for women, dybbuks could be a means to escape the demands of a confining society. Once possessed by a dybbuk (or at least claiming to be), women were no longer considered responsible for their own actions, and were exempt from arranged marriages and relieved of wifely duties. Thought to be the souls of sinners, these spirits gave a certain degree of power to the powerless, freeing them from the norms of routine life and its conventional ordering.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Spirits in the Material World
I just read the following comment on Nextbook in a review of Dybbuks and Jewish Women in Social History, Mysticism, and Folklore by Rachel Elior
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