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Is it permitted for a man to marry his dead wife's sister?
Sveta:
This is also the premise of the "Fill The Void" movie. A man's wife during childbirth. His mother in law (desperate to keep the widower husband in Israel with her grandson) suggest that the widower marry his sister-in-law. She is repelled by the notion but ultimately falls in love with him. And she becomes the stepmother of his nephew. In a way, it worked- as her stepson was her own flesh and blood nephew.
It's just a movie, but I too have heard of these cases. I met a man whose wife died and his second wife was her sister. She was raising her own nieces and nephews as her own children.
Definitely not looked upon in the same contexts as yibum. It's completely optional for a man to marry his dead wife's sister.
edu:
This hebrew article
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/samet2/14-2.htm
says that it is permitted to marry the sister of the wife after the first wife died
and provides an example in the Talmud of Yosef the Cohain in Moed katan 23a who did so.
Binyamin Yisrael added:
--- Quote ---That animal Ariel Sharon did so. Does that make his sons from his second wife mamzerim?
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The question you have to answer first was Ariel Sharon halachicly Jewish because if he wasn't the children would have the status of all children born through intermarriage.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
Edu I heard the same thing from a number of people. I heard Sharon was not halahically Jewish.
Also a "Mamzer" is not defined as someone born out of wedlock. A Mamzer is someone born from certain forbidden relationships (such a incest, or a married women being with someone not her husband).
muman613:
--- Quote from: Tag-MehirTzedek on June 28, 2013, 11:14:44 AM ---Edu I heard the same thing from a number of people. I heard Sharon was not halahically Jewish.
Also a "Mamzer" is not defined as someone born out of wedlock. A Mamzer is someone born from certain forbidden relationships (such a incest, or a married women being with someone not her husband).
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Nobody in this thread suggested Mamzer was anyone other than a person born of a forbidden relationship. Although many commonly mis-represent it as an alternate term for a 'bastard' which means one born out of wedlock.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
--- Quote from: muman613 on June 28, 2013, 04:03:07 PM ---Nobody in this thread suggested Mamzer was anyone other than a person born of a forbidden relationship. Although many commonly mis-represent it as an alternate term for a 'bastard' which means one born out of wedlock.
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--- Quote from: Binyamin Yisrael on June 27, 2013, 10:50:06 PM ---
I thought maybe Omri Sharon was a mamzer. I say this because he had a child out of wedlock.
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And Muman their are forbidden relationships that doesn't qualify one a mamzer either. For example (Fill in Male and Female yourself)- a Jew with a non-Jew. A Jew with a Jew but before marriage. AND a Jew and a Jew during marriage but at the time of her menstruation and the period when she is Nidda and forbidden for her husband. It if forbidden to be at that time until she goes to Mikwah BUT a child of that relationship is not a Mamzer either.
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