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Of great concern to the Torah is keeping up the honor and purity of the Jewish women.
Thus, in two places, the Torah lists forbidden sexual relationships (see Vayikra, Chapter 18 and Chapter 20:10-24), most of which are incestuous relationships. For these relationships, the punishment will be either karet (being “cut off” from the community, i.e. a symbolic death sentence) or mitat beit din (a capital offense).
Our daf presents the rejected position of Rabbi Akiva, who disagrees with Shimon ha-Temani and rules that any sexual relationship that is forbidden by the Torah – even a simple prohibition that will not carry with it the punishment of karet or mitat beit din – will preclude the possibility of marriage (i.e. not only is marriage forbidden.
We explore the exploitation of captive women in antiquity and in Devorim (Ki Setzei) informing us how to process the unspeakable horrors perpetrated last week in Israel.