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Dirt or Life?

The biblical edge on women:  “Adam means adama, or dirt. Eve in Hebrew is Chava, or life…

The Midrash takes the knife and twists it.  “Why are men unstable and women stable?  Because men are from dirt and women from bone.   Put water on dirt and it becomes mud.  Put water on a bone and it just drops off.”  Rabbi David Eidensohn
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