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DYK Torah Journal's avatar

A few ideas:

1) "Ushpizot" sounds like a bad hybrid between aramic and hebrew. It should have an Aramaic feminine plural suffix--like, I don't know, Ushpizina or ushpizinta or something... Anybody with knowledge of proper talmudic aramaic please weigh in.

2) And once you find out the proper term, copyright it, make graphics depicting the women in their biblical roles, and monetize it!

3) Include a label saying "for women and girls only" :)

Hadasa's avatar

Brilliant!

Daas Yochid's avatar

I'm assuming that a great Rebbetsin saw these women come in to her sukkah and that's how we know the Ushpizot.

Lisa Liel's avatar

I'm assuming not. I'm assuming that the whole idea was created by someone in the Conservative or Reform movement. More likely the former.

Daas Yochid's avatar

It was a joke lol

Lisa Liel's avatar

Sorry. These days it's *really* hard to tell.

DYK Torah Journal's avatar

But which ones did she she? Maybe different rebbetzins saw different ones--depending on their dispositions and shoresh neshamas?

זכרון דברים's avatar

Here's my list:

Elizabeth Báthory

Amelia Dyer

Miyuki Ishikawa

Juana Barraza

Belle Gunness

Jane Toppan

Mary Ann Cotton

Thank Ash for cross-referencing

Moses Levin's avatar

Sigh... now another woman whose songs i cant listen to...

Lisa Liel's avatar

I didn't understand. Can you explain it to me?

Harold Landa's avatar

The issue of Kol Isha is complex, but the frum mindset is to automatically forbid (‘fences’) . This comments points to these reductive reasoning ab absurdum……