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  • Well the article says that

    the brother of a man who died without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow. However, if either of the parties refuses to go through with the marriage, both are required to go through a ceremony known as halizah, involving a symbolic act of renunciation of their right to perform this marriage.

    So, permitted and encouraged, but not forced into it. Except by god it seems.


  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGarden of gethsemane
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    10 days ago

    To add to this, the most closely related passage in the bible is in Genesis 38, where this guy Onan was ordered to have children with his brother’s widow so the child could inherit his brother’s estate.

    This seems to me a bit outside your usual family obligations, and so did the guy because while he engaged in sexual intercourse, he “spilled his seed” on the ground to avoid fulfilling this familial duty.

    God didn’t think much of that and killed him on the spot.

    The tale is usually linked more to the “sin” of contraception, but it seems like a much more pragmatic story: it’s best you knock up your brother’s widow than have everyone start a war over the spoils.


  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFull circle.
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    12 days ago

    Not sure if this is a jest, but it isn’t true.

    People move to other countries sometimes with little more than the clothes on their backs - just look at historical immigration to the US.

    If you have the luxury of doing it the proper way - getting a job offer, a place to live, etc - then that’s perfect, but desperate people will do desperate things to survive.







  • And we conquer that fear daily.

    Many could be tempted to attribute that to our bravery, our grit, our resolve.

    They’d be overlooking the simple explanation that some of us fear hunger and cold slightly more than we do the grueling and backbreaking 9-to-howlongisitreallyfuckineedtosleep hours.





  • Have you seen the price of gas?

    Also, Iran has been striking at neighbouring countries, including UAE and Saudi Arabia, and not limited to the military. US owned, or related, assets are juicy targets.

    Logistics in the whole region is a hot mess, and holding 2 racing events with the size and viewership of F1 would not only be impossible to organise, but more importantly, do you really want to host such events in the middle of an active war zone and tempt fate?