This week's section begins with the bizarre law of the 'beautiful (gentile) woman':
“When you go to war on your enemies and G-d will put it in your hand and you will take prisoners. And you see a beautiful woman and you take her for a wife etc.”
This is very hard to understand.
First of all, how can the Torah allow a Jewish soldier to take a gentile wife just because she is beautiful?
Even more; the only soldiers allowed to fight were those that had no sins and were completely righteous. Why would they even want to do such a thing?!
“When you go to war on your enemies and G-d will put it in your hand and you will take prisoners. And you see a beautiful woman and you take her for a wife etc.”
This is very hard to understand.
First of all, how can the Torah allow a Jewish soldier to take a gentile wife just because she is beautiful?
Even more; the only soldiers allowed to fight were those that had no sins and were completely righteous. Why would they even want to do such a thing?!
The Weekly Sedra – Ki Teitzei
This week’s section begins with the bizarre law of the ‘beautiful (gentile) woman’:
“When you go to war on your enemies and G-d will put it in your hand and you will take prisoners. And you see a beautiful woman and you take her for a wife etc.”
This is very hard to understand.
First of all, how can the Torah allow a Jewish soldier to take a gentile wife just because she is beautiful?
Even more; the only soldiers allowed to fight were those that had no sins and were completely righteous. Why would they even want to do such a thing?!
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