[Avodah] Yosef Kappara and Tamar

[Zev Sero]

Meir Rabi wrote:
> If the last option frightened her 
> and she wanted to avoid this was she permitted to thus endanger her life?

Malbim suggests that Yehudah did not sentence her to be burned to death
but to be branded on her face as a whore.  He suggests that the reason
prostitutes covered their faces was to hide their brands.

This doesn't answer the question, but it does reduce the stakes (so to
speak).

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