Yes we have tradition to keep balance but when traditions change the transition is brutal.
I will say my mother broke tradition by not Matchmaking me OR "trafficking" me to a man and she also taught me that women should have a voice and not be kowtowing to any man but to work in partnership... but first she must find her voice.
Reform Judaism is far different than orthodox.. and many people do not understand this and so they group many people and cultures together not taking into account the evolution of cultures and religions..
It is ironic that many right wing Christians are no different than Orthodox religions enslaving women and men into rigid traditions.
Even the old world in both Judaism/Hebrews and Christianity, women were nothing more than chattel. Today, women in both of these religions, women are nothing more than a mouthpiece for the patriarch and matriarch and nothing more than chattel, to be bought and sold through dowries and politics, breeding children exponentially..
Single mothers trying to find some kind of reconciliation with their choices will deem themselves a spiritual survivor of the patriarch but then repeating the traditions within her "new" matriarchal role of an independent woman by raising her daughters and sons to reenact what she suffered from.. and it's an endless cycle and loop of suffering and dying and reproducing repeating the same mistakes until somebody breaks the curse and that genetic line is annihilated or someone diverges..
In the meantime it's like watching Groundhog Day as each generation repeats the same mistakes as their predecessors
[TEVYE]
Tradition, tradition! Tradition!
Tradition, tradition! Tradition!
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