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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.women
Subject: Re: Paranoia and Morning Blessings
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Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 14:33:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 25 14:33:51 1984
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The prayer giving thanks that one was not created a woman is part of a
threefold group, giving thanks that one was not created a foreigner, a
woman, or a slave.  By some curious "coincidence", the Greeks had a similar
threefold saying.  The evidence indicates, in fact, that that prayer entered
Judaism as part of the Hellenization of Judaism around 200 B.C.E.