Dr. Ronit Irshai is a Senior Lecturer in the Gender Studies Program, and Chair of the Department, at Bar Ilan University and is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute's Kogod Center. Irshai holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies and Jewish Philosophy from Bar Ilan University. She is the author of Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature (Brandeis 2012) and “Woman” or “Eve”? Abortion in the Orthodox Halakhic Discourse of the 20th Century (Magnes, 2022 [Hebrew]), and co-editor (with Dov Schwartz) of New Spirit in the Palace of Torah - Jubilee Volume in Honor of Professor Tamar Ross (2018 [Hebrew]).
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The rabbis distinguish four stages in the fetus’ development towards personhood. For the duration of the pregnancy, until the commencement of active labor, “a fetus is like its mother’s thigh” (עוּבָּר יֶרֶךְ אִמוֹ).
The rabbis distinguish four stages in the fetus’ development towards personhood. For the duration of the pregnancy, until the commencement of active labor, “a fetus is like its mother’s thigh” (עוּבָּר יֶרֶךְ אִמוֹ).
