That's what those chicks in the old testament did.
2006-09-05 17:53:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, let's see. I'm not married. I have no children. So, I guess the next best thing is her husband.
2006-09-05 17:58:41 · update #1
You are mixing up your genders in the Law.
If a HUSBAND dies, his brother is to preserve seed for his brother's namesake.
If your sister dies, you don't have to sleep with her widower.
2006-09-05 18:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are talking about is called a "Levirate marriage".
This was only done when a married man died without leaving an heir, but leaving behind a young wife. His wife would "marry" his closest available relative, long enough to have a boy child. That boy child would be considered the heir of the original man that died. That way, the family bloodlines would not be wiped out, and family farms would not change hands. (The people were very attached to the land.) The husband's family would then take care of the wife and child.
The "marriage" did not have to be permanent, unless the couple so wished. Once there was a male heir, they could go their separate ways.
I don't think this custom is practiced anymore in Isreal. I wouldn't worry about it.
2006-09-05 18:06:39 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And I think you have it backwards and a little twisted. The idea was that a lady always had a man to provide for her and protect her. So If YOUR husband died... you would move in with your sister and her husband would take care of both of you. It was not necessarily a Sexual Relationship...although polygamy was commonly practiced then, but it was about keeping the women cared for and protected. Also, it was very common for a man to marry another sister in the same family if the sister died... but this was common because the marriages were arrainged! Marriages are no longer arranged today... so your Brother-in-law would not be going to your Father to get another wife if the one he has died!
2006-09-05 18:04:25 · answer #3 · answered by FreedomLover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, please understand the fact that you are a human being.. and not a Jew. I know, when you were born you didn't have any such notion. Such religious customs are the creation of such people in vested need. There is no need for you to follow suit. You have your own reason to live the way you feel right. God has given you every freedom. Only thing, you use it wisely. The act of such a living is called "Life"... all the rest, a lost one. And you are the best Judge at your inner peace at every moment of life and be strong yourself as your own Best Advocate in Life. That is your own duty and concern and none else, mind you. Please take care not in so much terms of wealth - but in terms of peace and right living absolutely as a true human being with a free will in every respect, to enjoy life, I say. Good luck!!!!!
2006-09-05 18:32:36 · answer #4 · answered by Vijay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a hunch you like your brother in-law. but it actually only applies to men whose brother has a wife. When the brother dies, it is not necessarily as an obligation but a way to continue the clanship. That was during the time when Jews were protecting their tribes so that the woman may not wander and marry someone who does not belong to the tribe or family. Normally at that time anyone who does not belong to the family are oftentimes enemy.
2006-09-05 18:05:16 · answer #5 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah jews used to do that..
Deut 25:5
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
The quran forbade that practice.
Quran 004.019
"O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may Take away part of the dower ye have given them,-except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good. "
2006-09-05 18:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Jamal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i in my view gained`t have been offended with the BIL for enhancing the undeniable fact that we don`t swear. in point of fact, often times childrens heed stranger`s words extra effective than a determine`s words. i could truthfully have reiterated the info with my daughter, even with what BIL had stated already, yet i does no longer have been offended. maybe he grew to become into relatively basically attempting to assist. some families are raised that ìt takes a village` That he badmouthed you on your toddlers is an absolute deal-breaker that loses him the privilege of seeing your toddlers unsupervised. That crosses the line and your husband must be on your element of this one. Will he like it whilst his brother starts badmouthing him, too!
2016-12-18 05:38:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its if your husband dies you marry his brother. it sounds silly but it was meant as kindness to women, since they no longer had somebody to provide for them and in ancient societies women needed providers or would end up starving on the streets. i have no idea if this was actually practiced.
2006-09-05 17:55:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if you wish to go to the Jerry Springer show after wards.
2006-09-05 17:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by pinacoladasundae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no hunny that was back in a time when women did not look after themselves and the need for children to look after you in your old age was great.
2006-09-05 17:55:13 · answer #10 · answered by wing23ca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋