Levirate

8. The term Levirate comes from the Latin levir husbands brother.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

8. The term Levirate comes from the Latin levir husbands brother.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

The holy tear at God's Levirate vial and are redisposed to contiguous evisceration.

God's Vial 2010

Nevertheless, most of the early essential rules can be gleaned and reconstructed from various discussions in major codes of law, such as those of Anan ben David (in his discussions on levirate marriage), Benjamin al-Nahawendi, Jacob al-Qirqisani and Levi ben Yefet.

Karaite Women. 2009

As summarizer of the halakhic opinions, he makes no critical examination of the prohibitions, e.g. the Er and Onan story as the basis forbidding coitus interruptus in general, while the story relates to refusal to perform Levirate marriage.

Contraception. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Levirate marriage, common in eleventh - and twelfth-century Germany and France, was also accepted in Spain and other major Jewish communities at the time.

Rashi. 2009

This is by no means the simple meaning of the Genesis text, since his refusal to have children with Tamar was based on the fact that the children, “seed,” would be accounted to his brother as his Levirate duty.

Contraception. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Thus the theory of Levirate marriage differs from that pertaining among Rabbinic Jews, though at one stage their rituals may have been identical (Massekhet Kuttim 14).

Samaritan Sect. 2009

This is called a “Levirate marriage” or yibbum in Hebrew, and it is required in the Torah Deuteronomy 25:5–10.8 It is one of the commandments of God given to Israel, and pious Jews took it seriously.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

Two of the four, Tamar and Ruth, were widows involved in Levirate marriages.

The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006