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The Gemara notes that Proverbs 3:17 states: Her ways are the ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace”.
The rabbis use this to mean that all women should be treated with consideration.
Women should not force women who are already married to then perform chalitza; she should not be demeaned in front of her new husband.
Our notes teach that "pleasantness" does not mean that the Torah's halachot are pleasant.
However, they are fair and without discrimination.
We explore the ramifications of this concept in Halacha in general and when’re ethical and halachic spheres intersect ending with
Reb Aron Lichtenstein’s meditation on the human and social factors in Halacha.