Showing posts with label Divorce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Divorce. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Burning Down The House

With all the many references in the Torah uniquely defining a man's wife as his בית (house) it then struck me as a real difficulty how the Torah is able to write

ושלחה מביתו ויצאה והיתה לאיש אחר

... how can it still be called ביתו if she's now gone??!

[Note as an aside, the connection between the latin femina/familia, and it's derivations in english feminine/family and french famme/famille]

[possible answer: see Yevamot 103b  שאני התם דאמר קרא (ויקרא יג) ושרף את הבגד אפילו בשעת שריפה קרוי בגד]