Zemah ben Paltoi, Gaon of Pumbedita (872–890), “calls upon a man to flog his wife if she is guilty of assault.” Rabbi Yehudai b. Nahman (Yehudai Gaon, 757–761) writes that: “…when her husband enters the house, she must rise and cannot sit down until he sits, and she should never raise her voice against her husband. Even if he hits her she has to remain silent, because that is how chaste women behave” (Ozar ha-Ge’onim, Ketubbot 169–170). The ninth-century Gaon of Sura, Sar Shalom b. Boaz (d. c. 859 or 864), distinguishes between an assault on a woman by her husband and an assault on her by a stranger. The Gaon of Sura’s opinion was that the husband’s assault on his wife was less severe, since the husband has authority over his wife (Ozar ha-Ge’onim, Bava Kamma, ).
A typical example of a beneficial rabbi whom understood that Maimonides’s terminology rationalized beating your spouse getting an excellent “good” cause is Roentgen
From inside the Muslim The country of spain, R. His ideas on the the latest domineering woman would be the fact she will end up being hit-in buy to educate their particular. He writes in his publication Ben Mishlei: “Strike your wife versus hesitation in the event that she tries to control you such as for instance a person and you may introduces their direct [too much]. Don’t, my personal young man, not become your wife’s partner, while your lady is their unique partner’s husband!” Underlying his terms is that the most useful woman is the one which try complementary; the newest bad woman is one that is disputatious.
In the following period, known as that of the “ Rabbinic authorities/halakhic decisors/ biblical commentators of the mid-11 th to mid-15 th c.. The period of the rishonim followed that of the geonim and preceded that of the a h aronim. Rishonim ,” Moses ben Maimon (Rambam), b. Spain, 1138 Maimonides (1135–1204) recommends in his Code, the Mishneh Torah she-bi-khetav : Lit. “the written Torah.” The Bible; the Pentateuch; Tanakh (the Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographia) Torah , that beating a bad wife is an acceptable form of discipline: “A wife who refuses to perform any kind of work that she is obligated to do, may be compelled to perform it, even by scourging her with a rod” (Isshut ). Some rabbis, such as Shem Tov b. Abraham ibn Gaon (d. Safed, 1312), in his commentary Migdal Oz on Maimonides, understand the referent to be the rabbinic court (beit din), since the word “force” (kofin) is in the plural, rather than the singular. However, most commentators concur that Maimonides means that it is the “husband” who can force her. R. Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa, the well-known fourteenth-century interpreter of Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah, writes in the Maggid Mishneh that “Nahmanides wrote that we force her with a stick and it is also the view of Rabbenu (i.e., Maimonides) and the major rabbis.” It should be noted that Maimonides was most liberal in grounds for divorce, allowing sexual incompatibility, “me’is alai” (lit. “He is repulsive to me”) as grounds (cf. also Ket. 63b).
Samuel ha-Nagid (936–1056) are among the first sages so you’re able to indicates the new partner so you can overcome their controling partner with the intention that she stay in their place
Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi (c. 1200–1263), who recognized the idea that a spouse may overcome his wife when the she transgresses: “A guy shouldn’t beat his neighbors. . The person whom beats his next-door neighbor transgresses a couple negative precepts. And thus it is on the people whom beats his spouse. The guy transgresses one or two negative precepts, Varna bride in the event that the guy don’t strike their particular in order to reprove their unique for the majority transgression” [stress mine] (Iggeret Teshuvah, Constantinople, 1548). Therefore Roentgen. Jonah distinguishes anywhere between wife violence and you will stranger physical violence. One can possibly merely physical violence a person’s spouse when the rationalized, however, one can possibly never violence a person’s women neighbors.