[Avodah] the cohen gadol and marriage to a pubescent girl

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: True, but doesn't this get to an issue of the Torah was given for  all
: times and all places? [--RJR]


>>Well, not the laws of a kohein gadol.<<

-- 
Micha  Berger         



>>>>>
Given that the Torah was given for all times and all places, you must  
consider that where the Torah seems to contradict current mores, Torah trumps  
current mores and we are supposed to view current mores through Torah eyes  rather 
than view the Torah through the eyes of current secular mores.  A  classic 
example would be the Torah's attitude towards homosexual activity, which  it 
unequivocally calls "to'evah."  
 
(But I do agree that the idea of a 12-year-old girl marrying a man  of 40 or 
50 is quite distasteful, and I wonder if there are any other  opinions that 
would enable a widowed KG to get around that.)


--Toby Katz
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