{"id":46535,"date":"2018-12-06T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46535"},"modified":"2018-12-08T04:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T10:00:25","slug":"off-the-pulpit-mrs-maccabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-mrs-maccabee\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Mrs. Maccabee"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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In an age when women and men both have communal positions, we should be mindful of how women influenced Jewish life when their public voices were not heard. The formative first years of education were the domain of the mother. Chanukah, like Pesach, like Shabbat, was created as much in the kitchen as the study hall.<\/p>\n

We are blessed to live in an egalitarian age. But each time we eat \u2018traditional\u2019 foods, we are honoring generations of devoted women who shaped and sustained our tradition. Although we lack books recounting the details of their days, our own lives are tributes to their vision and passion. I don\u2019t know much about Mrs. Maccabee, but she must have been a remarkable woman.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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