Upon stumbling on the Internet, I came across some fairly beautiful words. The excerpt was apparently written in the Hebrew Talmud.
“Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior. But from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.”
The notion of equality, especially in a religious sense, baffles me. Having participated in various teachings of Islam and Christianity, the notion of a woman being equal to a man was never taught to me personally.
Have I simply interpreted wrong?
http://www.1stholistic.com/reading/prose/A2004/liv_the-value-of-a-woman.htm
Almira