In Sivan Rahav-Meir’s fourth essay for Parashat Acharei Mot, “The Sanctity of Marriage” (#Parasha: Weekly Insights for a Leading Israeli Journalist, trans. Chava Wilschanski, Menorah Books, Jerusalem, 2017, p. 172-3), she points out that several verses in the Parashat HaShavua govern the marital relationship:
VaYikra 18:6, 17-9
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. I am the LORD…
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness. 18 And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime. (Prior to the Rabbinic legislation of Rabbeinu Gershom that prohibited polygamy for Ashkenazic men.) 19 And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her ritual uncleanness. (Taharat HaMishpacha.) … Continue reading
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