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Demolishing a Jewish-feminism icon, we wrote this:

Eruvin 53b – 54a:

רבי יוסי הגלילי הוה קא אזיל באורחא אשכחה לברוריה אמר לה באיזו דרך נלך ללוד אמרה ליה גלילי שוטה לא כך אמרו חכמים אל תרבה שיחה עם האשה היה לך לומר באיזה ללוד

Plenty of Poskim (let alone Mussarites) quote this Gemara, thinking it proves we should be loony lunatics when speaking to women. But the lesson here is not regarding “Sicha Im Ha’isha”, but against Bruriah. Who dares call Rabbi Yosei “Glilli shoteh”?!

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Here’s one example of a Ba’al Mussar who took the Gemara about speaking with women literally: Rabbi Yerucham Lebovitz in “Daas Chochma Umassar” volume 4, p. 173.

Mises engages in psychoanalysis…

See Mishneh Halachos 6:110, based on his reading of the Radbaz.

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Someone complained the special Tu Beshvat fruits often “disappear” well before Tu Beshvat arrives.

I told him not to worry.

See, Tu Beshvat is largely a Chassidic holiday, anyway, and Chassidim believe the Hachana for the Mitzvah is greater than the Mitzvah itself…