Women are more sensitive to matters of the soul, more receptive to ideas of faith, more drawn to the divine than men. While men may excel in physical prowess, women are far ahead when it comes to spiritual strength.

Until I learnt Judaism's attitude to women. Unless there is some other area of human endeavour in which women are superior, we are not equal. If men are superior to women in physical strength, but equal in all else, then men and women are not equal. But in every other way, men and women are equal.' It would not be fair for them to compete against each other in sports which require bodily strength, because men would always win. 'Men are on average stronger physically than women. If we are all equal, why can't we compete together?' I asked, 'If men and woman are equal, why do men and women never compete with each other in sports? You never see a man playing against a woman in tennis, or women's soccer teams facing men's, or a mixed gender 100 metre sprint. I remember as a child being told that men and women are equal. But do we really believe that? Is it not just a patronising way to avoid the question of the different gender roles in Judaism?

This is supposed to explain why men have more religious obligations than women - men need these things to become closer to G-d, women are there already. I have often heard it said that Judaism believes that women are more spiritual than men.

Are men stronger than women