Thank you for this important reflection. A couple of comments... Aren't people recognized as Jews through their mothers? If so, were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah were not Jewish? T
oo, from a feminist standpoint, can we consider the implied non consensual nature of sex with their masters as rape?

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