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Notice, first, that the prohibition is upon going to bed with a zakhar.
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A man (ish) is not forbidden to lie with a man (ish), but with a zakhar.
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Notice, first, that the prohibition is upon going to bed with a zakhar.
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A man (ish) is not forbidden to lie with a man (ish), but with a zakhar.
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In the rabbinic idiom, mishkav zakhar comes to refer to male-male anal penetration (Niddah 13b, Boyarin 1995, 336), similar to the more exceptional term “the way of masculinity” (derekh zakhrut, Tosefta Yevamot 10: 2, Yerushalmi Ketubbot 3: 9, 27d; Satlow, 18).
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Personally I feel that the only missing piece is some type of kedusha-through-prohibition for lesbian relationships: if straights have nidda, and gay men have mishkav zakhar, what about lesbians?
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Such remembering, zakhar, in cases such as these involved
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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It is seen that the reason for the most prevalent use of zakhar within special classes of males is simply because that is most often the subject, from sacrificed animals to Jews returning from exile.
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It is seen that the reason for the most prevalent use of zakhar within special classes of males is simply because that is most often the subject, from sacrificed animals to Jews returning from exile.
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It is seen that the reason for the most prevalent use of zakhar within special classes of males is simply because that is most often the subject, from sacrificed animals to Jews returning from exile.
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