Questions tagged [arayot]
Forbidden Relationships mostly enumerated in Leviticus 18
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Does the prohibition of bestiality apply to fish
Does the Halacha’s prohibition of bestiality apply to fish? The reason I ask is because Halacha distinguishes between fish and non fish animals for other aspects of Halacha, such as the need for ...
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Adultery in Gentile Marriage
Rambam says that gentile woman are liable for adultery ONLY when they are married and commit sex with another man in a NATURAL WAY (vaginal).
So if a gentile husband allows his wife to have sex in a ...
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Relationships with step-family
Recently, I chanced upon a screenshot of a Twitter post. In it, a woman who claimed that she once dated a man whose son her sister was dating at the same time. I found this to be a rather dubious ...
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Adultery and Penalty of the Noahide Laws
Adultery today in modern societies has little practical consequence, it is not entirely free of personal consequences but there doesn't seem to be a mechanism that makes you think twice. One of the 7 ...
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Why strangulation for adultery?
The Torah tells us which relationships are forbidden and what the punishments are. Some of them are cut off from the people, some are strangled, some are burnt, killed by sword others are stoned. The ...
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Forgiveness for adultery?
I see Orthodox and Hasidic rabbis advising couples where adultery has been committed against the other not to get divorced or not to take that attitude immediately, to dialogue, to find out how far ...
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Lesbianism would be prohibited based on what principle?
"Do not do as in Egypt" as written in Leviticus 18 indicates what kind of practice? A rabbi from Brazil (I am Brazilian) with whom I have contact cites Rambam, which refers to the homosexual ...
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Question on this Rambam
"If, by contrast, a Jewish male enters into relations with a gentile
woman, when he does so intentionally, she should be executed. She is
executed because she caused a Jew to be involved in an ...
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The halachic prohibition of sexual promiscuity and adultery in the case of an infertile woman
I am an Italian Noahide.
Here in Italy I participate online in a Biblical forum that sees the presence of some Israeli Jews.
Well, in the context of a discussion about the prohibition of sexual ...
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What exactly did Reuben do with/in his father's bed?
On the verse "...Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine..." the Gemmorah (Shabbat 55b) explains: "And the verse ascribes to him as if he had actually lain with Bilhah .....
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Where did Maimonides learn specific Issurey Biah from?
In the Mishnneh Torah, Issurei Biah 1:13 there is a law that does not punish a man who has had forbidden sexual relations with a girl who is under three years of age:
"כָּל אִשָּׁה אֲסוּרָה ...
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For wartime conditional Gett, what's the status of intermediary adultery?
I'm trying to understand the Halachah of David's story with Bat Sheva, relying on the idea of "conditional Gett".
a soldier writes a conditional Gett, which states that if he eventually ...
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For those who hold that David sinned, how was he allowed to ever marry Bat Sheba?
I might be erring here, but IIRC adulterers can't ever be married.
For those who hold that David did sin, how was he allowed to marry Bat Sheba?
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How does Nathan's "poor man’s lamb" parable relate to David's deeds?
IIRC, the story tells us that David sleeps with Uriah's wife, impregnates her, tries to get away with it and fails, commands his general to send the husband to be murdered, and after he dies, openly ...
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Sources on adultery for a man
I haven't heard much discussion on adultery for a man. It seems the focus is on adultery of a woman, since she can't have more than one husband. A man however can have more than one wife. As well, ...
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