Re: Virgin until Marriage?
MR ADAM J STEINER (Admiral@prodigy.com)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:28:14, -0500
The Torah says that a girl should be a virgin until she is married. In
fact, if she is seduced beforehand, the man must pay the father of the girl
50 silver pieces. Besides the prohibition against pre-marital sex, there is
the additional prohibition against sexual relations with a women who is 'in
nidah'(menstrual impurity), which carries a much more severe punishment
(this prohibition even applies to one's own wife). In order to become
'tahor'(pure) again, she must immerse in a Mikva (a halachic 'pool'). A
question was posed to Rav Soloveitchik zt"l from a man who said that he
could not control himself and would have marital relations with girls while
he was single. Would it be permissible for them to go to a mikvah and
purify themselves so this problem of nidah would not exist. Rav
Soloveitchik answered that they could not go to a mikvah before they were
married, because they should not be having sexual relations anyway, and
should they decide to go it would 'open the floodgates' and all single
girls would go so that they could have pre-marital sex.
Adam Steiner (brbc11b@prodigy.com)