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

[T613K at aol.com]

>>I know of very little (though not nothing) indicating
that  girls ever "ought to" have got married that young; I think it
was always  regarded as simply what people did, rather than as some
moral  imperative.  I think we today should regard it much as we do
cousin  marriages: morally neutral, used to be common, is no  longer
common....<<
 

-- 
Zev  Sero                



>>>>>
It was not that long ago that such young marriages  were still taking place 
among frum Jews.  See  *The Rebbe's Daughter:  Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood* 
by Malkah Shapiro (a book I found absolutely  fascinating).  She lived from 
1894 to 1971, born in Poland, died in  E'Y.  She was the daughter of the Rebbe of 
Kozienice (that's how the book  spells it -- sort of looks like "cozy and 
nice" doesn't it?).  And she was  married at age 12.  However, the chassan was a 
youngster not much older  than herself -- not a man old enough to be her 
grandfather.

 

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