tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post3764733096802856136..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Daf Yomi Ketubot 35b: The Mature Woman's Claim of Virginityjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-10223624344601637362007-09-16T19:33:00.000-04:002007-09-16T19:33:00.000-04:00read my post again, with the update, to see what I...read my post again, with the update, to see what I mean in terms of where I was wrong.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-88163891199386601252007-09-16T12:20:00.000-04:002007-09-16T12:20:00.000-04:00Hi.I'll try to post more on this later, but I can ...Hi.<BR/><BR/>I'll try to post more on this later, but I can show why I am wrong here. That's why my caveat is critically important.<BR/><BR/>That is, the text can indeed show that one should limit intercourse. Aside from the textual problems globally, we may sever the present sugya and show how locally to Niddah the Rif's reading is indeed quite, and possibly the most plausible. Thus any woman would not have the full night, but would have until blood was seen. And perhaps less than that -- the text implies less than that, which would then give current practice. But I'll save that for my update.<BR/><BR/>In general, I am a big proponent of text based understanding, and would assume that conclusions are arrived at based on different concerns logal to the intellectual argument. Only after exhausting that would I look to social concerns. Thus, when looking to the issue of women and shechita, the book about "Pious and Rebellious" women looks first to social change, but amazingly makes no mention of Eldad haDani and the Hilchot Eretz Yisrael (properly Amar Yehoshua) which certainly influenced matters.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-88657057332707397282007-09-15T23:00:00.000-04:002007-09-15T23:00:00.000-04:00Out of curiosity, do you have a theory as to why t...Out of curiosity, do you have a theory as to why the halacha changed to limit intercourse and touch after the first intercourse against the text (and I might add against human nature?) Meaning do you think the textual problems and the Riff's attempt to solve them is enough to so dramaticlaly change the concept of the 7 days of rejoicing, or do you think social norms or attitudes towrd sexuality had anything to do with it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com