Sex is an important issue but hard to get right. Rav Nahman of Uman suggested a correction for sexual sin --saying the ten psalms 16,32,41,42,59,77,90,105,137, 150.
But as Sefardim noticed during their 2000 year exile in Muslim lands that the only real way to get to sexual purity is by being married immediately that one comes of age.
[In some areas this was necessary for other reasons.]
That is as soon as the boys were 13 and the girls 12, they were married off. Usual the actual arrangements about who marries whom was made many years before that. Just the actual marriage only happened by the boy was 13 and the girl 12.
And even though the men could marry many women, still the arrangement was usually just one wife to one man.
In Torah law, a man can have many wives and even many girl friends. And in fact we see many great people in the Bible had several wives and concubines. Like Kalev ben Yefuna [Chronicles I 2:46] [Caleb, the friend of Joshua ]
If gentiles think they have moral codes better than the Bible, well their moral codes anyway change with the direction of the breeze every ten years. and then they think their ideas of morality are eternal,
[Marriage in Torah is not a "sacrament." It does not make sex holy. Nor even allowed. What it does accomplish is to make obligations on the man and other obligations on the wife. The same act of sex that is permitted after marriage is also permitted before marriage. The only difference is to the Ramban it is permitted period. To the Rambam there is lacking a positive command to marry. That is however not prostitution. So Christians have things about sex very mixed up.
That is what comes from lack of study of the Old Testament. When Christians talk about study of the Bible, they never get into the exact laws of the Bible.
But as Sefardim noticed during their 2000 year exile in Muslim lands that the only real way to get to sexual purity is by being married immediately that one comes of age.
[In some areas this was necessary for other reasons.]
That is as soon as the boys were 13 and the girls 12, they were married off. Usual the actual arrangements about who marries whom was made many years before that. Just the actual marriage only happened by the boy was 13 and the girl 12.
And even though the men could marry many women, still the arrangement was usually just one wife to one man.
In Torah law, a man can have many wives and even many girl friends. And in fact we see many great people in the Bible had several wives and concubines. Like Kalev ben Yefuna [Chronicles I 2:46] [Caleb, the friend of Joshua ]
If gentiles think they have moral codes better than the Bible, well their moral codes anyway change with the direction of the breeze every ten years. and then they think their ideas of morality are eternal,
[Marriage in Torah is not a "sacrament." It does not make sex holy. Nor even allowed. What it does accomplish is to make obligations on the man and other obligations on the wife. The same act of sex that is permitted after marriage is also permitted before marriage. The only difference is to the Ramban it is permitted period. To the Rambam there is lacking a positive command to marry. That is however not prostitution. So Christians have things about sex very mixed up.
That is what comes from lack of study of the Old Testament. When Christians talk about study of the Bible, they never get into the exact laws of the Bible.
