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• 00:03 male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible
• 00:05 teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:08 On today's program, we begin our look at the women of the Bible
• 00:11 in our series "She Shall Be Called Woman."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:24 ♪♪♪
• 00:29 female: I came forth from a man--
• 00:30 female: But I found favor with him and now--
• 00:33 female: True success is not measured in wealth and power but
• 00:36 in the estate of one's heart.
• 00:38 female: I've never been happier and more fulfilled.
• 00:42 female: I raised him up strictly in the faith, the law and the--
• 00:46 female: And now I want to give something back.
• 00:47 female: I believe Elohim meant it to be this way.
• 00:50 female: She's still a cornerstone of
• 00:51 wisdom to the family.
• 00:53 female: But you are always in my heart.
• 01:06 David Hart: Thank you so much for joining
• 01:07 us today, I'm David Hart.
• 01:08 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:11 David: So we've brought you many series recently of men in
• 01:14 the Bible, but this series is about women in the Bible.
• 01:18 We need the women, don't we?
• 01:19 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, years ago I kind of weighed in on it
• 01:22 and wanted to bring the story forth, and I'm glad to do it.
• 01:25 It's a retake of what was done some years ago.
• 01:27 But the title "She Shall Be Called Woman" resonates in
• 01:31 today's culture in ways that didn't exist
• 01:33 when we first titled it.
• 01:35 Kirsten: Which is very interesting.
• 01:36 I am a woman. I think that's obvious.
• 01:39 And I love women, but we do have a certain role in the world and
• 01:44 biblically, and I'm kind of good with that.
• 01:46 And we're going to discuss some of, shall I say,
• 01:49 the most famous women in the Bible but ones that portray a
• 01:53 godly woman figure, is that right?
• 01:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, now--and I sheepishly get into wanting
• 01:59 to talk to women about what constitutes
• 02:01 being a proper woman.
• 02:02 I'm hardly an authority.
• 02:03 But as a Bible scholar, as a Bible teacher, I just want to
• 02:07 look at the literature and bring it forth,
• 02:09 and the authority's there.
• 02:11 Kirsten: Well, we appreciate you teaching from the Bible on a
• 02:16 woman's role, and
• 02:17 we're going to look at someone now, aren't we?
• 02:18 David: Right, we take you now to the very first
• 02:20 woman in the Bible.
• 02:22 Her name is Eve. Let's go there now.
• 02:31 Eve: My first memories of life are not like any other.
• 02:35 I remember awakening in the garden.
• 02:42 Everything was new and fresh, the sweet fragrance of
• 02:47 honeysuckle, the tranquil melody of the lark,
• 02:52 the pleasant fruit on the trees.
• 02:59 Elohim led me through this glorious paradise to a peculiar
• 03:04 creature, one just like me.
• 03:14 You see, I was not born from a mother and father.
• 03:18 I came forth from a man.
• 03:28 The moment he looked upon me, I saw his sorrow
• 03:33 and loneliness turn to joy.
• 03:38 His heart was now whole.
• 03:43 My husband, my friend, my love joined in union for life,
• 03:52 joined together as one.
• 04:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Bible's a beautiful book.
• 04:02 In the book, Bereshit, what we call Genesis,
• 04:05 Moses is on record, [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:11 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
• 04:15 We're told as well that
• 04:17 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:21 The earth it was void, but the Spirit of God
• 04:24 was moving over the face of the waters.
• 04:27 God is said to have been in a very creative mood over a number
• 04:30 of days, each of which ends.
• 04:32 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:35 It was evening. It was morning.
• 04:37 Day one, day two, day three, etc.
• 04:39 Finally, we get to the end of that creative unction.
• 04:42 In chapter 2, verse 1,
• 04:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:50 That God had made it all and that he then settled
• 04:54 down to rest some.
• 04:57 It's interesting, you know, God was in the mood to rest.
• 04:59 However, things were just cranking up for humankind.
• 05:03 We're told, in fact, in chapter 1, verse 26, before the rest,
• 05:07 God says--Moses says
• 05:09 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:14 That God said, "Let us make man in our image,
• 05:18 in our likeness."
• 05:21 Out of the earth there's eret, as in land or there's--the
• 05:26 word in Hebrew aphar like the dust.
• 05:28 But then there's this earthy substance in Hebrew, adama.
• 05:32 The very soil, the essence of the planet, if you will.
• 05:36 And God reaches down, and from the adama,
• 05:39 from the earth God makes Adam.
• 05:42 He makes Adam.
• 05:44 It's a fascinating story.
• 05:46 In fact, in the opening salvo we're told that God made Adam in
• 05:51 his image and his likeness, but not just Adam alone.
• 05:55 Along with Adam came Chava, Adam and Eve.
• 06:00 We're told that man and woman, he created them.
• 06:06 While we're interested in creation generally,
• 06:08 we're particularly interested in the creation of holy matrimony.
• 06:14 When God reached out to Adam and made him,
• 06:18 observed within him was that it was not good for that man to be
• 06:21 alone and that he was to be complemented by the creation of
• 06:27 Chava, Eve, who was made by God, who came forth from him.
• 06:34 It's an interesting combination, and it's the relationship
• 06:38 between a man and a woman.
• 06:39 It's the woman's contribution to the man and to life that'll be
• 06:43 the object of our contention as we continue on.
• 06:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: God made man and God made woman,
• 06:52 and he gave them the mandate to be fruitful and multiply and
• 06:55 replenish the earth, and of course we know the story.
• 06:58 Replenish the earth they did.
• 07:01 People got to the business of finding love and marriage
• 07:04 and the race multiplied.
• 07:06 We learn, however, not long after the creation of marriage
• 07:10 that things went horribly wrong not with marriage itself as an
• 07:15 institution as much as with humankind, for while placed in
• 07:19 Gan Eden, while placed in paradise, things went awry.
• 07:25 Sin made its entrance onto the stage of the human drama.
• 07:28 The race was vitiated, defiled, and the rest is history.
• 07:34 And evidence of things going wrong is attested in the way men
• 07:38 and women treated each other.
• 07:41 Well, we know that Cain killed Abel,
• 07:44 and then we see in the Genesis narrative that one of Cain's
• 07:47 offsprings, Lamech, went on and killed a man himself.
• 07:52 In fact, he boasts to his wives of having done so.
• 07:57 Last I checked, the Bible says that a man was to be joined to
• 08:00 his wife, not joined to his wives.
• 08:03 Things went bad, and this interest in acquiring women is
• 08:07 evidenced of a world gone bad.
• 08:10 To be sure, there's natural desires,
• 08:12 sexual desires between a man and a woman,
• 08:15 but this acquisitiveness, this unbridled lust for the more is
• 08:20 going to be humankind's undoing.
• 08:25 In the Bible God made man.
• 08:26 I want to show you this on the screen
• 08:28 with a little Hebrew lesson.
• 08:29 The word for man in Hebrew is Ish.
• 08:32 Aleph, yud, shin.
• 08:35 Ish.
• 08:37 The Hebrew for woman is the word Ishah.
• 08:41 Aleph, shin, heh.
• 08:45 The letters common between them are the aleph and the shin.
• 08:48 But if you look again at the Hebrew,
• 08:50 you'll see the letter yud.
• 08:53 And if you look at the Hebrew for Ishah,
• 08:55 woman, you'll see the letter heh that are unique to each.
• 09:00 The letter yud and the letter heh in Hebrew
• 09:03 form the prefix for God.
• 09:05 It's an abbreviated form of Jehovah, hence the
• 09:08 understanding that it's God--it's with God that
• 09:12 women and men are brought together.
• 09:14 In much the same way absent God from the equation,
• 09:18 what we're left with is something else.
• 09:20 In fact, if you take yud and heh out of the words Ish and Ishah,
• 09:25 you'll see on the screen you're left with the
• 09:27 letters aleph and shin.
• 09:29 This is the Hebrew for fire.
• 09:32 You might recall Paul saying once that God brings men and
• 09:35 women together and that it's better to marry than to burn.
• 09:39 You take God out of the equation and what
• 09:41 you're left with is fire.
• 09:43 Well, marriage as an institution is on fire.
• 09:46 What I want to do is take you to the biblical text and show you
• 09:50 how we can extinguish it by bringing biblical water to bear
• 09:55 to help individuals understand this great institution,
• 09:58 what we call marriage.
• 10:08 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I believe that it's important for marriage to
• 10:10 endure beyond love's first impulses, for as we mature,
• 10:16 better that we go through life together.
• 10:20 To help facilitate stronger bonds,
• 10:22 I think we do well to look at the beginning of the bond,
• 10:25 the biblical instruction for it, in fact, and Genesis chapter
• 10:30 2 is the go-to place.
• 10:31 And so if you will open up your Bibles, please,
• 10:33 I'm going to read from mine, and therein we find a lonely man.
• 10:39 In fact, in verse 18 of the second chapter starts off
• 10:42 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 10:44 "And God said."
• 10:45 And what does he say?
• 10:47 He says what we all know without him saying it.
• 10:49 [speaking in Hebrew],
• 10:52 that it is not good for man to be alone.
• 10:54 "And I will make him a helpmate."
• 10:57 There's a desire to find that other half,
• 11:00 and here that's given expression to in the biblical literature.
• 11:04 You know, Adam doesn't know where
• 11:06 that other half's going to be.
• 11:07 So God puts him to sleep, and he's going to wake up and
• 11:10 discover someone beyond his wildest dreams.
• 11:14 It's a beautiful story, and there's a point in the story
• 11:16 that's worth underscoring.
• 11:18 In verse 23, the man has woken up and he--his eyes
• 11:22 alight upon Chava, upon Eve.
• 11:25 And we're told he says here
• 11:27 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:32 He looks at her and he says,
• 11:33 "That's what I'm talking about."
• 11:35 He says, "This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh."
• 11:40 Look how attracted he is.
• 11:41 You can just feel the energy in his voice.
• 11:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:47 She shall be called woman. And why?
• 11:49 Well, we're told [speaking in Hebrew].
• 11:52 Because this woman came forth from the man.
• 11:57 And then there's some embellishment on top of this
• 11:59 that's worth noting seriously.
• 12:02 We're told then
• 12:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 12:07 "And therefore a man leaves
• 12:10 his father and his mother."
• 12:11 Inasmuch as she was separated from him--separation is
• 12:15 underscored, that a man and a woman leave
• 12:18 their family of origin.
• 12:19 And we're told [speaking in Hebrew]
• 12:23 And they cleave--that Adam cleaves to his wife,
• 12:26 [speaking in Hebrew],
• 12:29 and they become one flesh.
• 12:31 And you know what the secret to that one flesh is?
• 12:34 It's commitment, learning to love,
• 12:36 learning to go through life together from adolescence and
• 12:39 beyond, as we continue on in our series on women of the Bible.
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• 13:25 David: We just want to say thank you for helping us bring
• 13:28 you series on men and women of the Bible.
• 13:31 This was first--actually the series that we're in right now
• 13:33 was produced back in 2007, but it's still relevant
• 13:37 for all of us today.
• 13:38 Kirsten: Very much so, and we'd like to focus on mothers,
• 13:42 and for our mother figure we picked Hannah, Hana.
• 13:46 And we're going to go to Israel now for her story.
• 13:58 Hannah: My son, I know we were together only for a short
• 14:02 time, but you are always in my heart.
• 14:07 I think of you daily.
• 14:12 And you may not understand now, but I made a vow to Yahweh that
• 14:18 if he would turn my affliction and give me a son, I would give
• 14:26 the child back all the days of his life.
• 14:32 That is why you'll live in the house of Elohim
• 14:35 and serve the priests.
• 14:38 Listen carefully and obey them, for it is their charge to teach
• 14:43 you the ways of Yahweh.
• 14:47 Samuel, I will always be your mother and you
• 14:51 will always be my son.
• 14:54 Wear this to keep you warm and to remember me
• 14:58 when you are lonely.
• 15:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: As the book of 1 Samuel, or Shmuel,
• 15:07 begins, Yerushalayim, Jerusalem is in the hands
• 15:10 of the Jebusi, the Jebusites.
• 15:13 David is soon to come, but he doesn't
• 15:14 appear in the narrative yet.
• 15:16 In fact, there is no king in Israel.
• 15:18 The Jewish people don't have a central leader.
• 15:20 There is no capital city.
• 15:22 What you have are individuals living out in
• 15:24 various farming communities.
• 15:26 They live in villages, they live in humble homes just like--here.
• 15:31 The Bible isn't well studied.
• 15:33 Some, like this fellow, were given to the study of scripture,
• 15:35 but by and large it's been neglected for years, but still
• 15:39 there are righteous souls trying to eke out an existence and find
• 15:43 some security in a rather insecure world.
• 15:47 Here in Ephraim, there was a man, Elkanah,
• 15:49 who had a wife Peninnah and a wife Hannah.
• 15:53 Hannah is particularly noted to be a beautiful woman, a sincere,
• 15:57 devoted woman, but she's just given over to trouble.
• 16:01 She lived a rather rural existence.
• 16:03 You know, they farmed.
• 16:06 They learned to domesticate livestock and use it.
• 16:10 They gathered the fruits of the earth.
• 16:12 In effect they live a peasant life.
• 16:14 They didn't expect much, but a woman still expects love.
• 16:19 And it's not too much to ask to find love from a man,
• 16:22 and it's not too much to ask for children.
• 16:26 Oh, Hannah was a broken woman.
• 16:28 We learned this story in 1 Samuel,
• 16:30 how she's so very vexed.
• 16:32 Not only is she unable to bear a child,
• 16:35 she's really unable to bear the angst generated because her
• 16:39 rival, the other woman in the house,
• 16:41 is given to childbearing and is forever putting a thorn
• 16:45 in the side of Hannah.
• 16:47 Why is that?
• 16:48 Because her husband loved her so very much.
• 16:51 He loves her even though she doesn't have a child.
• 16:54 And he even says to her at one point,
• 16:56 "Dear," he says, "am I not worth more to you than ten children?"
• 17:00 You know, on one hand I can appreciate his sentiments;
• 17:04 but the answer in truth is no, you're not.
• 17:07 Why is that?
• 17:08 Because she was driven so much for a desire to bear.
• 17:12 And what does she do?
• 17:14 I'm sure you can recall the story.
• 17:16 She goes to the tabernacle, the mishkan,
• 17:22 this worship center that was set up and long since neglected and
• 17:26 there she prays, "God, please, I beg you.
• 17:29 Please, please give me a child.
• 17:31 And if you do that, I will dedicate that child to you."
• 17:35 You know what happens?
• 17:36 She does just that, and God does just that.
• 17:40 She's going to conceive a child.
• 17:42 Oh, marvelous is this woman.
• 17:45 And there's a beautiful story that unfolds here of a woman's
• 17:49 love for a child, and this is our beginning point as we
• 17:52 consider motherhood, this sacred act of bringing life into the
• 17:56 world, and we'll consider this as we study
• 17:59 the Torah on motherhood.
• 18:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: What does the scripture say?
• 18:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:08 This is quoting Hannah, who's there beseeching God
• 18:11 at the mishkan saying that, "If you'll but give me a child,
• 18:15 I'll give him back to you all the days of his life."
• 18:19 This in the Shmuel text is the equivalent of what we find in
• 18:23 the Matthean Gospel, where Yeshua, where Jesus is on record
• 18:26 saying, "If you'd seek first the kingdom,
• 18:28 I'll give everything else to you."
• 18:30 This woman is saying, "God, I want to put you first."
• 18:33 And she says that believing that God is going to,
• 18:35 in fact, act on her behalf.
• 18:38 I think it's very interesting for a variety of reasons,
• 18:40 one of which is here you're looking in the Hebrew Bible and
• 18:43 discovering a woman who is authorized to make a vow.
• 18:48 This, to me, is reflective of a number of things,
• 18:50 one of which is the fact that she isn't construed as simply
• 18:53 the love slave of the male of--in her life, nor is she
• 18:57 simply domestic help to work around the home and serve the
• 19:01 family's various material needs and interests.
• 19:03 To be sure, she does bear children and, yes, she helps
• 19:06 around the house, but this is a woman that's empowered.
• 19:09 She's authorized in various ways.
• 19:12 This is evidenced, in fact, because later on when it comes
• 19:14 time to fulfill the vow, her husband Elkanah says, "Well,
• 19:17 shall we now give this child over the Lord as per your vow?"
• 19:21 And she says, "Tis not the time."
• 19:23 And she in effect is told by him,
• 19:25 "Listen, do whatever your pleasure is.
• 19:27 Do what seems best."
• 19:28 Here again there's an example where a woman has social power,
• 19:32 and this is striking.
• 19:34 Today I've discovered in a past career as a police officer many
• 19:38 examples of men who neglect and abuse women,
• 19:41 who treat them as property, to push them around.
• 19:44 And I observe in the world today as well that some religious
• 19:47 traditions seem to sanction a vision of a woman as just the
• 19:50 property of a male, a love slave,
• 19:53 someone to do his material bidding.
• 19:55 The Hebrew Bible, however, casts the vision for a woman of worth,
• 20:01 a woman of value.
• 20:02 This is evidenced in creation, in fact,
• 20:04 where we discover that she is made from Adam and in some sense
• 20:08 then is her equal, not just his property.
• 20:13 I'd like to sit down and take you to the time when Moses stood
• 20:17 up and delivered the luchots, the commandments.
• 20:20 You might recall he goes to Har Sinai,
• 20:23 to Mount Sinai, and he comes down with the luchots,
• 20:26 with the commandments, with these--the table of ten.
• 20:30 Principle in that table is a mandate.
• 20:34 It's observed in the book Shemot,
• 20:36 in Exodus chapter 20, verse 12.
• 20:39 Therein the Israelites were told to honor
• 20:42 your father and your mother.
• 20:45 It's extremely important not just for men to honor their
• 20:50 wives, but it's important for the children to honor
• 20:53 the father and the mother.
• 20:55 And the reason why I want to underscore mother here for the
• 20:58 young is because later on when this is repeated in
• 21:03 Vayikra, in Leviticus there in the 19th chapter
• 21:06 the order is reversed.
• 21:08 Moses there reiterates and says this time,
• 21:11 "Honor your mother and your father."
• 21:14 Hence the importance of valuing a mother.
• 21:17 Inasmuch as we see women so vested in the care of their
• 21:23 young, so it is imperative upon the males of the species to
• 21:27 value the mother and for the children of the species
• 21:30 to value the mother.
• 21:31 This is underscored in the Hebrew Bible with the notation
• 21:36 that one must needs do so in order for their days to be
• 21:40 prolonged upon the earth.
• 21:42 This is one of the few of the 613 examples where there's
• 21:45 instruction and then it says do this in order that you
• 21:49 may be successful in life.
• 21:52 This point is underscored beautifully,
• 21:54 it seems to me, in the Hebrew Bible in the book Devarim.
• 21:58 Devarim in Hebrew means the words.
• 22:01 It's known as deuteronomos from the Greek meaning second law.
• 22:07 Therein in the 22nd chapter, there's what seems
• 22:11 to be an insignificant story.
• 22:13 Here, Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses is on record saying that if you
• 22:17 walk along the path and stumble upon a nest,
• 22:20 or if not on the path, if you see a nest that just happens to
• 22:23 be upon the ground, one that fell from a tree branch,
• 22:27 and as this one here has fallen and eggs have fallen out,
• 22:31 here the instruction is that if a person is walking along the
• 22:34 path or discovers a nest and that person says,
• 22:39 "I want to eat the young."
• 22:42 The person is told that if the mother bird is around,
• 22:45 they are not allowed to touch the eggs.
• 22:48 The instruction in 22:6 and 7 is that one must needs--shoo away
• 22:52 the mother, and after doing so, then the person
• 22:57 can take the eggs.
• 22:59 And after this law, one of the 613, it says do this in
• 23:04 order that your days might be prolonged upon the earth.
• 23:07 Here we're looking at the few examples,
• 23:09 Spartan texts, where there's a commandment to do this in order
• 23:13 that you may prosper, and why is that?
• 23:15 So sacred is the bond between a child and a parent,
• 23:21 that it extends not just to humans but to the smallest
• 23:25 of creatures, the birds.
• 23:27 The Hebrew child is instructed that the relationship between a
• 23:30 mother and a child is sacred, and so it is that the children
• 23:34 must needs honor, respect, and help the mother.
• 23:37 If this boy learns this at a young age,
• 23:39 you know what's going to happen?
• 23:41 Inasmuch as he's learned to honor his mother,
• 23:43 he's going to grow up, and you know what?
• 23:45 He's going to honor his wife.
• 23:48 Would we not do well to open up the Hebrew Bible and come to
• 23:51 terms with the obligations to honor the women in our world,
• 23:56 our daughters, our mothers, our wives?
• 23:59 ♪♪♪
• 24:11 Kirsten: There are so many things about Hannah's story that
• 24:14 speak to me, and I have to say one of the things I love about
• 24:19 her is she was extremely bold.
• 24:24 She went into a man's world.
• 24:26 She went into the tabernacle and she wasn't supposed to,
• 24:29 but she was bold to call on God for what she needed.
• 24:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and to me, fascinating,
• 24:34 the male in the story, the priest was just a worthless
• 24:38 piece of human wreckage, clueless, didn't even know what
• 24:40 a praying woman looked like, and he's supposed to be
• 24:42 in charge of the religion.
• 24:44 She certainly is a hero in that story, and she gave birth to a
• 24:47 hero of the story, Samuel, who really gets the ball rolling in
• 24:51 a change of dynamics in biblical literature.
• 24:54 This woman was incredible, and she was at a certain place in
• 24:57 time and she was a significant personality.
• 25:01 David: Can I say this, too, that we were just in that spot
• 25:04 in Shiloh where she--where all that took place?
• 25:06 And I know that you have some amazing moments in
• 25:10 Shiloh where all that happened.
• 25:12 Kirsten: I do, that's one of my favorite places.
• 25:15 They say that, you know, Ha-Kotel, the Western Wall is
• 25:18 the closest to where the Holy of Holies was,
• 25:20 but in Shiloh, you can--you're right there where the tabernacle
• 25:23 stood for hundreds of years.
• 25:25 And we don't think about that spot much,
• 25:29 but that's where Hannah went in and she was bold before God and
• 25:32 said, "Please give me a son.
• 25:34 I'll give him back to you, but this is what I want."
• 25:37 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: That's right, the tabernacle was there
• 25:38 for hundreds of years.
• 25:39 And to your point, a lot of people in trying to understand
• 25:42 what life is all about, what gender is all about,
• 25:47 a lot look internally and they look to the future
• 25:51 and they look at the present.
• 25:53 We want to look at the past.
• 25:55 We think that it's important to look at the book and what's
• 25:59 modeled in there, what's taught there and--to bring that forth.
• 26:05 We think it would alleviate a lot of confusion
• 26:09 that exists in modernity.
• 26:10 What do you think?
• 26:12 Kirsten: Well, I agree, and I've got to jump back to the
• 26:14 beginning of the program real quick.
• 26:16 You talked about--you know, we're teaching on Eve,
• 26:18 and we give Eve a bad rap.
• 26:21 You know, she ate the apple, or she ate the fruit.
• 26:24 But we have all these self-help things right now in the world,
• 26:27 and she hears Eve dealing with hormones and there wasn't anyone
• 26:31 else to learn from what a woman is like,
• 26:34 and I think she did the best she could.
• 26:37 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm less inclined to be overly critical
• 26:39 of her, in part 'cause even in the literature the instruction,
• 26:41 don't eat the fruit, she wasn't around then.
• 26:44 It was her old man that heard it.
• 26:46 There's a fail to deliver the information.
• 26:49 He's ultimately responsible for it.
• 26:51 Sadly, individuals laid the blame of the problem in the
• 26:55 human species on womankind because of Eve,
• 26:58 but I think that's overly simplistic and problematic.
• 27:01 Kirsten: Ooh, this is good. It's good stuff.
• 27:03 David: There's more women coming in this series.
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