[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 06/16/2016 03:10 PM, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> ..On 6/16/2016 8:38 AM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
>> : The Rambam writes at the beginning of hilchos ishus that after matan torah
>> : any biah that is not l'shem kiddushin is an issur d'oraysa and he would get
>> : malkos. That halacha was certainly around at the time of Boaz.
>>
>> Only "certainly" if Boaz held like the Rambam rather than the Ramban.

> In addition the Taz writes in Hilchot Nida (YD 172:1) that they did
> sleep together.I don't know how to square the Midrash with this Taz.

It's 192:1, and where's the contradiction?  He says they were in the same
bed, which is already in the pasuk.  He doesn't say or imply that they did
more than that.


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