[Avodah] Yosef Kappara and Tamar

[Zev Sero]

Ilana Sober Elzufon wrote:
> RMR: Why did Tamar wait until her pregnancy was
> obvious?
> 
> There were no pregnancy tests at that time - she could have strongly 
> suspected a pregnancy but wouldn't have known for sure until she was 
> showing.

Yes, but why wait for pregnancy at all?  Surely if her goal was to get
Yehudah to marry her, her best shot would have been to go straight to
him and confront him with the signs that he had given her, and force
him to consider his options.  That way she would have the advantage,
and if he agreed to marry her nobody would ever have to know what had
happened.

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