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Excerpts from Dispelling the Myth of the "Red Tent" "Red-Tent-Myth: The Red Tent describes Rachel and Leah as despising one another. Rachel hates the overly proper, controlling way of Leah. She, in turn, abhors Rachel's playfulness and charm. The sisters are described as being gradually compelled to accept each other's place, but never learning to feel affection for one another. The amazing self-sacrifice of Rachel in order not to embarrass her sister is completely ignored. The reason given for the switch of wives is that prior to her wedding, Rachel panicked in fear of marital intimacy. This is the greatest fallacy of the novel. First of all, it is not consistent with Scripture itself. Jeremiah 31:14 teaches us, about the amazing deed of Rachel, which is great enough to cause the return of all the Jewish people from exile." "Red-Tent-Myth: Rather than cursing her family and fleeing from their sight never to be reunited, Dina welcomed her brother's rescue from the evil city of Shekhem where she had been imprisoned. A proof that Dina remained with her family is that she is enumerated among the seventy souls of the seed of Yaacov that descended to Egypt... ...The inner essence of Dina remained unaffected and pure even as she was defiled by Shekhem. Her daughter, Osenath, is the first person through whom it becomes established that the Jewish lineage follows the mother. In this way, Dina teaches us that no matter what kind of experiences the Jewish woman has gone through in her past, there is a place within her soul that remains completely intact and pure in its holiness. This holy spark is carried on to the children she conceives. The fact that Dina is the first woman to verify that Judaism depends on the mother is hinted in the letters of Dina’s name which can be read as DNA of H'-Hashem."
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