[Avodah] Praising the Bride

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From: Micha Berger via Avodah _avodah at lists.aishdas.org_ 
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>> Batei Hillel veShammai
was late bayis sheini. This is an  era when Tu beAv included guys picking
our their dates from among the girls  dancing. <<
 
-- 
Micha  Berger              
micha at aishdas.org         




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According to the Book of Our Heritage (Eliyahu Kitov),  the dance  
courtship of Tu be'Av dated back to the  time even before the bayis rishon,  to the 
pilegesh beGiv'ah incident, when it was instituted as a way for the  
decimated tribe of Binyamin to get wives.  Kitov says that on that same  date, the 
ban against women marrying outside their own tribe was repealed.   The day 
that ban was lifted was celebrated as a minor yom tov from then  on.
 

--Toby  Katz
t613k at aol.com
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