• Yibbum (pronounced [jibum], Hebrew: ייבום) is the form of levirate marriage found in Judaism. As specified by Deuteronomy 25:5–10, the brother of a man...
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    deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry under the biblical system of yibbum (levirate marriage) The process involves the widow making a declaration...
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  • tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the laws of Yibbum (ייבום, loosely translated in English as levirate marriage), and, briefly...
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  • of yibbum in favor of halizah, to the point where in most contemporary Jewish communities, and in Israel by mandate of the Chief Rabbinate, yibbum is...
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  • spouse is no longer married. Conversely, in Judaism there was the custom of yibbum, whereby a man had a non-obligatory duty to wed his deceased brother's childless...
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  • marriage Islamic Marriage in Islam Misyar Nikah mut'ah Nikah 'urfi Levirate Yibbum Natural Scientology Self-uniting Widow conservation Hindu Vivaaha Brahma...
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  • marriage Islamic Marriage in Islam Misyar Nikah mut'ah Nikah 'urfi Levirate Yibbum Natural Scientology Self-uniting Widow conservation Hindu Vivaaha Brahma...
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  • widow, Leah (Lauren Ambrose), to honor him via the ancient Jewish law of yibbum (levirate marriage). Loving Leah began as a play by P'nenah Goldstein and...
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  • sanyasi, is commanded by his teacher to perform niyoga.[citation needed] Yibbum Thomas P. (1924). Kama Kalpa Or The Hindu Ritual Of Love. p. 21. Benjamin...
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  • does not participate in halitzah or yibbum. And the Sages say: she must participate in either halitzah or yibbum. For they have said: it is possible for...
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    Solomon's wife after Solomon died in accordance with scripture, namely, yibbum (the mitzvah that a man must marry his brother's childless widow). Jesus...
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  • yibbum (a kind of levirate marriage) with the widow so as to have children with her in the name of the deceased. The brother can refuse to do yibbum and...
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    qualify as King of Israel. Another explanation for these differences is yibbum, as offered by John of Damascus: "One ought also to observe this, that the...
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  • tractates: Yevamot (יבמות‎ "Brothers-in-Law") deals with the Jewish law of yibbum (levirate marriage) (Deut. 25:5–10) and other topics such as the status...
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    to his brother and begat Joseph, in accordance with scripture, namely, yibbum (the mitzvah that a man must marry his brother's childless widow); Joseph...
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  • perform yibbum (marry the widow of one's childless brother) — Deut. 25:5 To perform halizah (free the widow of one's childless brother from yibbum) — Deut...
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    a surviving brother to perform either yibbum or halizah. Already in the times of the Talmud, performing yibbum was deprecated in favor of halitza for...
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    husbands had died. The lying daughter-in-law was obliged by the laws of Yibbum to marry her brother-in-law unless released from the arrangement through...
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    fashion, just as Moses was expounding the law of levirate marriage, or yibbum, and they argued for their inheritance by analogy to that law. The daughters...
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  • They also practiced levirate marriage, similar to the Jewish practice of yibbum. Shabbat is observed on Saturday, when it is forbidden to light a fire....
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    favoring Yibbum over Halitza, which contradicted a religious ruling made by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel a year earlier, which had forbidden Yibbum.[citation...
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  • " First Things (January 2017) 'Can All Religions Be True?' (2005) 'The Yibbum of Henry VIII' (2009) 'Torah Giants Confront Modernity: A Study of Rabbanim...
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  • inheritance, including the levirate marriage known in the Old Testament as yibbum. At the introduction of the Protestant Reformation, priests were allowed...
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  • 125 ) Laws concerning divorce    (Mitzvot: 126 - 127 ) Laws concerning Yibbum and Halitza     (Mitzvot: 128 - 130 ) Laws concerning a young virgin   ...
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    of wages, vicarious liability, flogging, treatment of domestic animals, yibbum (יִבּוּם‎ "levirate marriage"), weights and measures, and wiping out the...
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    five books of the Torah as divinely inspired. The Jewish Levirate law or Yibbum) states that if a man dies and his wife has not had a son, his brother must...
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  • inheritance is part of Mosaic law in which it is known as levirate marriage (see yibbum). A feature of that practice is that the dead husband's brother must marry...
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    wife, she was astonished." Barley Boaz Goel Levirate marriage Naomi Ruth Yibbum Related Bible parts: Deuteronomy 4, Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 10, Deuteronomy...
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    fashion, just as Moses was expounding the law of levirate marriage, or yibbum, and they argued for their inheritance by analogy to that law. Reading Numbers...
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  • against God, with his failure to fulfill the terms of his Levirate marriage (Yibbum) being his final rebellious act. Also see: Natural Family Planning, Barrier...
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