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

[Zev Sero]

Ben Waxman wrote:

> Maybe a woman isn't married against her will but a girl can be. Her 
> father can marry her off (doreitta) or her brother and/or mother 
> (d'rabbanan).

They can do so without her active consent, but I doubt they can do it
over her explicit objection.  They can be mekadesh her, but they can't
send her to the chupah (etc.) if she refuses to go.


> In the latter case she can get out of it without a get, 
> but married she most certainly is.

Mi'un works retroactively; if at any point before her adulthood she
refuses him, she was never married in the first place.

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