[Avodah] The Delet Hakodesh and Lot

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
> There is no indication that the girls (or for that matter the men) were to
> be killed, or harmed in any way other than by being used as an object of
> giluy arayos.

"... other than that, Mrs Lincoln, what did you think of the play?"

> And whatever modern attitudes are, the Torah

> (1) Does not regard rape as a crime in itself -- it regards it merely as a
> combination of giluy arayos and an ordinary assault to be dealt with just
> like any other, assessing the five categories of damages as appropriate;

And ordinary assault is still assault. It's harm.

You're exagerating how different halakhah's position is than modern
attitudes. Or more accurately, how different the halakhah's position
ended up being when it was true that "darkah bekakh" and girls grew up
knowing it was likely they'd be raped at some point,

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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