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Sexual relations with one's brother's wife are otherwise forbidden by Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20. [4] Jewish custom has seen a gradual decline of yibbum in favor of halizah, to the point where in most contemporary Jewish communities, and in Israel by mandate of the Chief Rabbinate, yibbum is prohibited.
In verse 20, God prohibits sexual relations with a neighbor's wife, and in verse 21 God prohibits passing one's children through fire to Moloch. Verse 22 is the famous verse about "lie with a man," discussed below, while in verse 23 God forbids bestiality, and, according to some translations, pedophilia.
a widow whose brother-in-law refused to perform a levirate marriage, and she consequently performs the Halitzah ceremony [43] Some of these prohibitions are biblical, and some are rabbinical. The Kohen Gadol (high priest) must also not marry a widow (Leviticus 21:14). He is required to marry a virgin maiden (Leviticus 21:13). However, if he was ...
One's brother's wife (sister-in-law) (Leviticus 18:16), with the exception of Yibum One's wife's sister ( sister-in-law ) during one's wife's lifetime, even if since divorced ( Leviticus 18:18 ) The lists of prohibited relationships can be summarised as follows (the relations highlighted in red are those that are prohibited):
The Torah prohibits sexual relations by a man with his brother's wife, [1] but yibbum is an exception to this rule. The surviving brother is given a choice to take his responsibility as a goel by fulfilling the yibbum obligation, or to perform halizah, though the latter choice is described by the verse disfavorably. The brother who agreed to ...
In the Hebrew Bible, Leviticus 18:8–18 and 20:11–21 contain prohibitions of sexual relations between a couple in a consanguineous relationship, as well as a number of prohibitions of certain affinity relationships, e.g., Leviticus 18:8 (father's wife), 18:14 (father's brother's wife), 18:16 (brother's wife), 18:18 (wife's sister), 20:11 ...
A furious husband is reportedly set on divorcing his influencer wife after footage surfaced of her kissing Romeo Santos, the lead singer of Aventura, a popular bachata band who reunited for a 2024 ...
After being commanded by his father, Judah, to perform his duty as a husband's brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with the late Er's wife Tamar, Onan instead refused to perform his duty as a levirate and "spilled his seed on the ground whenever he went in" because "the offspring would not be his", and was thus put to death by ...