[Avodah] Pilegesh

[Daniel Eidensohn]

*Ramban(Teshuva #2) or  Rashba (Teshuva #284): *I do not know why there 
is any cause for doubt in the first place, for of course is this woman 
permitted to this man [without marriage] since she lives with him, and 
non-marital sex was prohibited to Is­rael only by the teaching' of Rabbi 
Eliezer ben Yaakov who taught; "One should not live with a woman in this 
land and with another woman in a second land, lest their offspring 
unknowingly marry one another, and brother will  then marry sister" 
(Babylonian Talmud" Y/oma /18b}. However, if she comes into his house 
and lives with him and is known to him .. , she is permitted to be with 
him sexually, ., . and we have not found in either Scriptures or the 
Talmud that there is any difference between a king or a commoner in this 
regard, and we find that the foremost spiritual leaders of Israel lived 
so .... And lest you, claim that the Scriptures permitted this but that 
the rabbis later prohibited it, pray tell, then, in what. place is it 
written that such a decree was ever pronounced? And which rabbinic court 
proclaimed it? And in what period of our his­tory? //

T613K at aol.com wrote:
> The question arose today at the Shabbos table as to what is the 
> definition of a pilegesh, and how does it differ from a regular wife?  
> I said I had heard that a pilegesh is a wife with no kesubah but then 
> someone asked how could that be -- if a man is not allowed to live 
> with a woman without a kesubah?  Somebody please fill me in here,  
> thank you!
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> *--Toby Katz
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