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Why Does A Woman Light The Candles?
The history of all the major religions contains a puzzling trend. Somehow as Judiasm developed the role of women was diminished from equal partner to chattel property. Its hard to reconstruct the process but if we look at younger religions like Islam or Christianity we can see clearly that the diminished role of women in religious tradition was not the original position. We know what exhisted only by observing clues that were allowed to remain. The fact that women light the candles at home is all that remains of our tradition that long ago saw women as priests and Judges and military leaders.
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