Jewish girls who marry Arabs: Why?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Berman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

This week's partial it says a sorceress you shall not allow to live. Now interestingly enough this comes right after the following. If a man will seduce a an unmarried virgin woman that was never betrothed, she's not engaged to anybody and he will lay with her that he is obliged to marry her if her father shall surely refuse to give her to the to him as as a wife. And Kazal learned from the I I think if I remember correctly from the double that she can also refuse because we know that a woman cannot be married off to someone without her consent without her interest without her acceptance has to pay a fine for what he did. So is there a connection between these two things between this case of seduction a man effectively taking advantage of a woman? No. He didn't rape her. He seduced her. He got her to comply. He got her to go along with it. Now that does not mean in every single situation where violent force was not used that it wouldn't be even hakically categorized as rape. There certainly can be cases where there's means of using coercion that are not physical. But yata means that a man succeeded in getting her to genuinely want it. So that's what we're talking about. Seduction is where someone used whatever tools that he had in his toolkit to get her to actually go along with it. Nevertheless, nevertheless there is obviously a taking advantage over here. So is there a

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1. 0:02This week's partial it says a sorceress you shall not allow to live. Now interestingly enough…
2. 2:46instead of instead of going with the quoteunquote natural order of things and going withimus and…
3. 5:49actually. I think I sent them an email and then I got a phone call six…
4. 9:01victims will then go try to get into a relationship with an Arab. It doesn't even…
5. 12:14the sexual abuse part. I said, why? Because it's going to close doors on us. I…
6. 15:23was very spoiled from it. But here's what I want to suggest that the TUR is…
7. 18:29certain extent have vulnerabilities. Not that men don't have any vulnerabilities. So perhaps what the Torah…
8. 22:17it's like you have a perpetrator and you have a victim and you're going to send…
9. 26:06a situation where, let's say, a 16-year-old boy is is abusing an 11year-old sister. There there's…
10. 29:21because there's a number of a number of pis that I was from my grandfather that…

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