What you're missing is that all of those experiences you're talking about are male ones. Who danced with fire? Not women. Who danced with the Aron? Not women. Earthy, pagan seeming and joyous experiences they certainly are. They're also fundamentally part of a male world.
It doesn't address the problem of women in ritual spaces. It's not just about bring the earth and joy back into things. It's also about finding spaces where women are equal in that joy.
And until the Haredi and Agudah communities lose their influence over what we can "allow" women to do (and the fact that the sentence is framed that way at all), women are going to seek that joy outside of Judaism.
I say this as a woman learning to chant our most holy book publicly at twice the age a male child would begin to learn. I say this as someone who has been carving the space where I can feel comfortable in a traditional setting.
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It doesn't address the problem of women in ritual spaces. It's not just about bring the earth and joy back into things. It's also about finding spaces where women are equal in that joy.
And until the Haredi and Agudah communities lose their influence over what we can "allow" women to do (and the fact that the sentence is framed that way at all), women are going to seek that joy outside of Judaism.
I say this as a woman learning to chant our most holy book publicly at twice the age a male child would begin to learn. I say this as someone who has been carving the space where I can feel comfortable in a traditional setting.