{"id":21455,"date":"2010-07-21T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2010-07-21T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:59:09","slug":"pedophilia-and-the-talmud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21455","title":{"rendered":"Pedophilia and the Talmud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/pedophilia-and-talmud.html\">Jacob Stein writes<\/a>: Considering this, how frequent are sexual relations between adult  Orthodox Jewish men and little girls, with the blessings of the rabbis?  Not very. I know of no Jewish bride in modern times who was under 17. In  ancient times, my impression is that typically brides were 12 while the  grooms were 18. In fact, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talmud\">Talmud<\/a>  Tractate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mechon-mamre.org\/b\/l\/l3702.htm\">Kiddushin 41a<\/a>  states \u201cIt is prohibited for a father to betroth his daughter in  marriage until she matures and declares that she wishes to marry the  groom.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tosafot\">Tosafos <\/a>  however does qualify that by saying that in a situation of extreme  poverty and economic uncertainty, as was the case for Jews in medieval  France, a man may marry off his small daughter if he is afraid that  later he will not have the financial means to do so and she will  therefore remain a lifelong spinster.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, based upon  the available documentation, a sexual relationship between an adult man  and a little girl, with the consent of the rabbis, seems to have been a  rarity which was permitted in some unusual, emergency situations in  medieval Europe. Today it is unimaginable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Stein writes: Considering this, how frequent are sexual relations between adult Orthodox Jewish men and little girls, with the blessings of the rabbis? Not very. I know of no Jewish bride in modern times who was under 17. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[22933,13339,22934,22903,22932,22931],"class_list":["post-21455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah","tag-conclusion-based-upon","tag-economic-uncertainty","tag-extreme-poverty","tag-jacob-stein","tag-jewish-bride","tag-tractate-kiddushin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}