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RABBINIC REFELCTIONS—PARSHAT “EMOR” criminal unless the parties were ineligible to marry each other – extreme circumstances. Still, the concern for honor is real. Like Rabbi Dr. Geoffrey Haber, MA, DMin, DD (Hon.) that is, when the woman is already married or betrothed (the it or not, an individual’s behavior reflects on his or her parents, Torah permits polygamy) or when they are related in a way the teachers, and community. It’s true that sometimes perfectly In January, a Saudi teen that was granted asylum in Canada Torah defines as incestuous. good parents raise a rotten kid, and good people sometimes after fleeing from her allegedly abusive family has arrived in come from terrible families, but as a working assumption it’s Canada. Her flight from Seoul, South Korea, landed in Toronto Moreover, Newmark points out, the Torah says (Deuteronomy reasonable to think that a person’s behavior reflects the values a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his 22:22), “If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both of he or she learned from parents, teachers, religious authorities, government would accept 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al- them – the man and the woman with whom he lay – shall die.” and other significant institutions in his or her life. Qunun as a . In other words, adultery by anyone – not just the daughter of a priest – is a capital offense, and the punishment is meted out by At the end of our portion, the Torah records the case of the According to CBC News, the young woman fled her family while the court, not by the woman’s family. blasphemer, son of an Israelite woman and an Egyptian father. visiting and flew to , where she barricaded We never learn his name, but we are told that his mother’s name herself in an airport hotel and launched a campaign that And finally, the Rabbis surround capital punishment with so was Shelomit bat Dibri of the tribe of Dan. Rashi explains, “This drew global attention to her case. many requirements that it is hard to imagine that it could ever be teaches that a wicked person brings disgrace upon himself, employed. Among the requirements that would have to be met Al-Qunun said her father physically abused her and tried to force disgrace upon his father (or parents), disgrace upon his tribe, and for the court to judge anyone guilty of adultery are these: her into an arranged marriage. The teen also wrote that she was similarly, a righteous person brings praise for himself, praise for  Before the couple did anything, they would have to be afraid and that her family would kill her if she were returned his father, praise for his tribe. home. seen by two kosher witnesses who would issue a warning that what they were planning to do was Never forget – the choices we make are not made for ourselves Sadly, her story is not an isolated case. Every year, thousands prohibited and punishable by death and naming the alone. of women and girls are murdered by members of their own specific method of execution that applied. Shabbat Shalom! families because they have tarnished the family’s honor. Their  Those who were warned would have to verbally crimes range from adultery to refusing to enter an arranged acknowledge that they understood the warning and were ------marriage, from seeking a divorce from an abusive husband to aware of the method of execution that would be imposed, Global Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, flirting, from dressing immodestly to being raped. More often and than not, the authorities look the other way.  The couple would have to go ahead and have sex Descendants, Educators and Friends

The United Nations estimates that some 5,000 “honor killings” anyway -- in the sight of the two witnesses. Newmark observes: while I don’t speak from experience, I’m take place annually. Women’s and human rights groups believe that the number is much higher. Most take place in the Middle pretty sure that’s not how most adultery takes place. Toronto will mark the 75th anniversary of East and Southwest Asia, but there are also documented cases So if all adultery is a capital offense, what’s the force of this the liberation from the Holocaust at the end of the Second in Europe, North America, and elsewhere. verse? It’s about the form of execution that would be imposed if World War, and host Liberation75 at the Metro Toronto With this in mind, it’s disturbing to read this verse in our Torah a daughter of a priest were convicted of adultery. The Talmud portion for this week (Leviticus 20:26): “When the daughter of a prescribes four methods of execution – strangulation, Convention Centre from May 31 through June 2, 2020. priest defiles herself through harlotry, it is her father whom she decapitation, burning, and stoning, in increasing degrees of For information about Liberation75, its lead sponsors & severity (and none of them is what you imagine). Normally the defiles; she shall be put to the fire.” It certainly seems to participating organizations, visit www.liberation75.org sanction, even require, “honor killing.” However, it is not only form of execution for adultery is strangulation, but the daughter of a priest is executed by burning – a more severe form of ------incorrect, but also dangerous, to define Judaism simply by reading the Torah text. We Jews read the Torah through the execution – because “it is her father whom she defiles.” Rashi eyes of the Rabbis, and we understand that what the text means, (Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac, 1040-1105, Provence) explains: “She OLUNTEERING at BINGO is FUN! and particularly how it is to be applied in matters of halakhah profanes and shames his honor, for people say about him, The next volunteer opportunities are all on: (Jewish Law), is what the Rabbis say it means. ‘cursed be the one who begot her, cursed be the one who Friday, June 21 2019 brought her up.’” Because the kohanim (priests) are set apart by Session 1: from 8am – 12 Noon Rabbi Joyce Newmark, in her comments on this verse, teaches God to be role models of holiness and to serve in the sanctuary, Session 2: from 11am – 3pm us that the Rabbis of the Talmud have quite a bit to say about the misbehavior of the daughter of the priest reflects not only on Session 3: from 2pm – 6pm this verse, and the first thing they have to say is that it doesn’t her family, but on the special role of the kohanim. PLUS Monday, June 24, 2019 apply to every daughter of a priest, but only to one who is 1 Session: from 8am – 12 Noon married. How do we know? It’s obvious; while the Torah Newmark concludes: Clearly, the Torah forbids “” – To volunteer, please contact disapproves of sex outside of marriage, it doesn’t become only the court can impose the death penalty, and only in the most [email protected] or 416-636-3451 x24