Hello my dear fellow classmates,
I am very sad since this may be ,y last post since the end of the year is nearing quickly!
Therefore, i decided to discuss a topic that includes characters from the beginning of the semester in Sefer Bereshit. Since we are all women. i decided to focus on Sarah, Rivkah and Rachel. We learned a tremendous amount about these individuals and their relationships to their husbands. However, i would like to focus on a topic that has always troubled me ever since i was a child. We learned in elementary school that god made these three women barren. when youre a child you dont realize what an incredible ache it is for a woman who craves to have a child so much to be denied of such a wish. When youre little you just always assume that it turned out fine in the end anyway since they prayed to god and got what they wanted(we seem to forget that Sarah had to wait like eighty years for her wish to come true.) In Sarah and Rachel's case it gets even worse. They are forced to allow their husbands to be with other women( Hagar, Leah Bilha, Puah,) since they were unable to have children of their own. That must have been one of the most terrible and heartbreaking experiences to have to share your husband with another woman who could do what you cant. Although many people may say it was a challenge taht these women had to overcome, i would like to know why that challenge was necessary? Why did all three of them get that same challenge? If it wasnt a challenge was it a punishment? If so, why wrere they being punished? Why did again all three reaceive the same terrible fate?