Rabbi Berekhiah on the Generation That Needed a Woman to Lead

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 42:9

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Rabbi Berekhiah says: There are four that wail, three in the world and one regarding a woman. Woe to the living one who must die. Woe to the man who must grow weak. Woe to the seeing one who must go blind. Woe to the generation whose leader is a woman. "And Deborah, a woman, a prophetess" (Judges 4:4).

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