Coding categories for maternal teaching task

1994 ◽  
pp. 294-295
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Mara H. Benjamin

This chapter offers a constructive theology on the master–disciple relationship and a rabbinic culture which replaces the parent with the sage-teacher. It talks about a parent engaged in childcare and childrearing as a metaphorical sage. It also analyses the quotidian tasks of childrearing that is primarily gendered as maternal teaching or maternal work to Torah. The chapter describes the parent as a sage that embodies Torah in the practices of attention, care, and openness to the other. It advocates a shifting of cultural perspectives for a fuller understanding of Torah, in which maternal work becomes the foundation upon which later learning rests.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Teichman ◽  
Josefina M. Contreras-Grau
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