The following article was inspired by my post, “Curse of Adam“…
(Special thanks to my sister in Yeshua Mashiyach, Flora, for pointing out the root connection between ‘marriage’ and ‘ba’al’)

In the beginning, matrimony was never a hierarchy of master and possession. It was a covenant of shared substance. When YHWH brings the woman to the man in Genesis 2, the man’s response is not a claim of ownership — it’s a recognition of identity: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman [אשׁה, ishshah], because she was taken out of Man [אישׁ, ish]” (Genesis 2:23). The two words are not separate categories of “owner” and “owned” — ishshah is the feminine form of ish. The text is built on a grammar of sameness, and it ends not with a transaction but with union: “they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).
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