ראש השנה ב

A woman who felt that her husband didn’t fully appreciate all that she did for him and their children, told him that if not for us women, you would still be a slave to Pharaoh because it was in the merit of the נשים צדקניות that we were liberated from Egypt after 210 years, rather than having to serve the full 400 years.  “Yes, dear,” her husband replied. “But why did השם release us early?  Because of the assurance of those same righteous women that they would continue to serve us and make up the shortfall.”