[Avodah] abuse vs gneiva

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:02 PM, saul newman <newman400 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I am just working on Yevamot (21a) and I came across this Gemara, which
> states that the sin of uneven measures is worse than the sin of arayot,
> because one can do teshuva for the latter:
>

I don't think this would hold true for molesters for two reasons:
1) The sin is not just the act itself, but also the effect it has on the
victim, for which one cannot really do Teshuvah,
2) The fundamental difference between uneven measures and arayot is that
uneven measures affects many many people, thus making the possibility of
Teshuva impossible. But with molesters, there is almost never just one
victim. All cases I know of, are serial cases with many many victims. As
such, here too, Teshuvah would be impossible.

The Gemara must rather be talking about a "normal" case or arayot: a
singular assur relationship between two consenting people, where the
Yeitzer Hara got the better of them.

Kol Tuv,
-- 
Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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