Into the fifteenth-century European countries we find significantly more rabbis whom approve of wifebeating to have the objective of education
Into the fifteenth-century European countries we find significantly more rabbis whom approve of wifebeating to have the objective of education This approach is illustrated in the collected responsa of Israel Isserlein (Austria, c. 1390–1460). In answer to the question, “Can a man who hears his wife cursing and saying bad things about her mother and…