[Avodah] yibum (was:Tamar's theatrics)

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:42:39AM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: But then we come back to, is a widow awaiting yibum subject to the death  
: penalty under Noahide law? ...

She was sentenced for prostitution. Let's say yibum and eishes ish wasn't
part of it. Perhaps it was, as you write:
: under Canaanite law of the time -- not Noahide law.  

But that would be Noachide law too -- the obligation to set up a civil
law.

Not that I hit meforeshim either...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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