Timeline for Why is it called Seder Nashim?
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 18:39 | comment | added | Loewian | @Heshy I didn't mean to make it sound as if the word isha inherently connotes marriage more so than does the word ish. Just that the word nashim is associated with marriage. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 18:34 | comment | added | Heshy | I agree that ishut means marriage. And I agree that marriage is a halachic status of the wife more than the husband. The only thing I don't agree with is your diyuk from the word. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 18:32 | comment | added | Loewian | @heshy Nonetheless, the fact that ishut seems to mean "marriage" (e.g. in Maimonides' Laws of Marriage) rather than, e.g. "manhood" or "personhood", suggests that there is at least one definition of the shoresh tied to the marital bond. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | Loewian | @heshy It seems pretty clear that ish can at time mean "man" regardless of marital status. It may well be the case that isha can also include, at times, an unmarried woman. That said, it is pretty clear that, at least at the biblical level, marriage is primarily a status of the wife (e.g. regarding the laws of adultery, etc.). | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 16:23 | comment | added | Heshy | This makes a lot of sense. I don't quite buy the diyuk that ishut relates to ishah more than ish though (like איש נעמי). | |
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 16:09 | history | answered | Loewian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |