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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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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.


  • 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.



  • Me, but with these new car headlights that are ridiculously bright and blue.

    I get it that you want bright beams, but do you understand how many people are out there driving with night blindness? Old people with cataracts, or just people with nearsightedness or astigmatism, or vitamin a deficiency (alcoholics * cough *), do you really want to risk your life?