[Avodah] mikva use

[David Riceman]

Pilegesh.  The Ramban construes pilegesh to mean an exclusive sexual 
relationship without benefit of clergy (a former teacher of mine 
described it as "mah shekorim b'anglit living together").  But for the 
Rambam that would be znus.

It sounds like you have a different construal of pilegesh.

David Riceman

On 10/26/2011 4:07 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
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> Is that about a pilegesh, or stam a pnuyah?  I don't understand how
> anyone can hold that a pnuyah is muteres; if kidushei biah are forbidden
> midrabanan because it looks like znus, then kal vachomer that znus mamash
> is forbidden.  A pilegesh, OTOH, does not look like znus, so I can
> understand the sevara to permit it.
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