Yael: A Righteous - Modest - Radical
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Description: A Jewish discourse on the slayer of Sisera and the nature of her femininity.
Yael: A Righteous - Modest - Radical "Blessed by women is Yael...by women in the tent will she be blessed." (The Song of Deborah from the Book of Judges) We concluded our last Women in Judaism class with a question: Why might Yael be blessed "more" than the righteous "women in the tent," who were said to bless her in the Song of Deborah? This question is based on a midrashic interpretation of the above verse (see previous class for details). The women in the tent - Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah - are renowned for modesty, symbolized by their close association in the Torah with the image of a tent - particularly its interior. Yael is known to have strayed from her tent in order to attract general Sisera. She then lures him back into her tent and kills him in a scenario that one would be hard pressed to call "modest."
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