1. What were the two spheres of men’s and women’s lives in the Ashkenazic world?

Men were in charge of public arena Including matters relating to the Synagogue. According to Rosman, the men were the senior parter of the marriage and the women were the junior partner. Men also conducted their religious studies in public, with other men in a public bet midrash. Women were in charge of managing family and private affairs. women studied their religious texts alone, or with their children.

2. How did women act on their religious commitments differently than men? What was their relationship to the synagogue?

Women only went to synagogue on Sabbath and holidays. They prayed individually at home, the (mikveh), or at the cemetery. Even when they did come to the synagogue, women did not join in the Hebrew liturgy with the men.