Fw: OFF (but i'm sure you'll read!): Sex w/ a jewish woman?

[Yael Levine Katz <ylkpk...>]

According to halakhah, an unmarried women who has not immersed in the
mikveh
is considered to be in the status of niddah, even if she is not
menstruating. If one has
relations with an unmarried women who immersed in the mikvah, it is still
prohibited,
though there is dispute whether it is a biblical injuntion or not. In
addition, the Ribash,
one of the rishonim, issued a gezeirah, an injunction, against single women
immersing.

Yael Levine Katz

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Cohen <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: OFF (but i'm sure you'll read!): Sex w/ a jewish woman?


Actually, from what I (humbly) understand, sex w/ an unmarried Jewish woman
*not in nidah* is not, strictly speaking, prohibited. This is, loosely,
what
the Christian world called "fornication"--and I believe John Calvin was
horrified to find that it wasn't forbidden in the Torah!

Just academically interested of course,

Robert Cohen



>Well, regardless of what the laws are, the fact is that that is how at
>least
>this group of chassidim were holding.  In for the non-jewish singer--out
>when
>the yidene sang in Yiddish.  And, if I didn't say so, they were completely
>oblivious to the Motown singer, never looking at hear or abating the
>conversation.  I assume that this has some parallel in the time-honored
>tradition that you can't have sex with a JEWISH woman unless and until you
>are married to her.  But I don't think we should open that can of worms on
>this group, should we..? ;-)
>
>Lori

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