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From: bjstaff@zds-ux.zds.com (Brad Staff)
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Subject: Re: a dog, a woman and a prayer of a man
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Date: 24 Dec 90 09:24:24 GMT
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[In response to the question about the prayer
>	Thank God I am not a dog,
>	Thank God I am not a woman....
I commented that I had heard that women had a similar prayer that
thanked God that they were not men.  --clh]

I just came across this in the book _What is a Jew_? by Rabbi Morris N.
Kertzer:

        There was also among our ancestors the feeling sometimes echoed
        by feminists today that men led a far less circumscribed life
        than their sisters.  In the old Orthodox ritual a man recited
        a special blessing each morning thanking God that he had not
        been made a woman, while a woman prayed:  "Thank God that He
        fashioned me according to His will."

Brad Staff
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