[Avodah] fashion models and opera singers - OT: is a qedeishah a zonah

[Arie Folger]

R'n CL wrote:
> Of course defining a woman to be a kadesha based on these types of
> actions would make it much more difficult for kohanim to ever marry, so
> I think that mostly poskim have shied away from such a position.

AFAIK, one needs to differentiate between the prohibition of qedeishah and 
zonah. The posqim point out that when the Torah states ishah zonah va'halalah 
lo yiqa'hu, it does not mean a woman who has had extramarital sex. Zonah is 
defined halakhically as kol sheniv'alah leassur lah, with some exceptions, as 
well as a woman who wasn't born Jewish (we rule - against Rabbi Shim'on - 
that even girls who converted before being 3 years old cannot marry kohanim 
and the prohibition has no connection to sexual relations the girl could have 
had).

Furthermore, just because derivative prohibitions may flow forth from lo 
tihyeh qedeishah, does not mean that one who transgresses such a prohibition 
automatically becomes a full fledged qedeishah.

KT,
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Arie Folger
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