Kvinnliga rabbiner

Läste en mycket intressant artikel om judiska (även ortodoxa/konservativa) kvinnor som har vigts till rabbiner. De är inte många, men de finns. Och det som verkar vara mest kontroversiellt är titeln, inte uppgiften, utom för en del bakåtsträvare...

Någon som känner igen resonemanget nedan?

Är det inte lite underligt att judendomen förnyas smidigare och snabbare än katolska kyrkan? Om den religion som kristendomen har vuxit fram ur kan viga kvinnor - varför skulle då inte vi kunna göra det?

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"In 1935, Regina Jonas of East Berlin was ordained a rabbi to serve the German Jewish community. But after the Shoah decimated the German Jewish population, no more women were ordained until the Reform movement began ordaining women in 1972. The Reconstructionists followed suit two years later. The second Jewish Renewal rabbi ordained by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi was a woman (Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, in 1981). And the Conservative movement ordained its first woman in 1985. As of 2008, according to the Boston-based Jewish Advocate, women outnumber men in liberal rabbinic schools.

But in the Orthodox world, ordaining women remains a radical move; perhaps because Orthodoxy is a culture in which men and women assume divergent gender roles in largely separate social spheres. The mainstream Orthodox viewpoint holds that God created men and women to be different according to divine purpose. /.../ Within that paradigm, for a woman to choose a position of communal leadership serving people of both genders is seen as immodest at best, and at worst an inversion of the divine order."

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