Rabbis’ redacted the Mishnah in the early on rabbinic era to set a standard interpretation of the Torah. The Mishnah was meant to layout a blueprint of how society should interact and the obligations of women to men and men to women. The Mishnah being a work with multiple contributors holds many people views, such as Rabbi Eliezer, and the Tanna Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. Both Rabbis’ held a similar view when it came to women and Torah studies. Rabbi Eliezer believed when women were to study the Torah it would make them more devious and they would try to hide their transgression from their husbands. The Tanna Eliezer ben Hyrcanus believed who’s ever daughter was thought the Torah she would be considered as a tiflut (impure). Both Rabbis from the Mishnah era viewed educated women in Torah study as a threat to their husbands. …show more content…
Both of these Rabbis’ views hold a negative connotation to how women behave if educated. In addition, Rabbi Eliezer mentions women obligation when it came to her husband she must “grinding flour and baking bread, washing clothes and cooking food, nursing her child, making his bed and working in wool…Even if she brings him a hundred servants he should compel her to work in wool, for idleness leads to immorality” (Ketubot 5:5). This exerts reveals how women if not worked to the bone to please their husbands were to be considered immoral. From the Rabbinic source the Mishnah a viewer can make assumption of what an ideal women were to be at this time. According to Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Hyrcanus a women was to be uneducated in Torah study, submissive to her husband, and to work none stop to show that they were considered as moral. The Babylonian Talmud being an interpretation of the Mishnah holds similar view to it, however it interoperates some of the work in a different