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Dear all, Peng An,
Posterity was a major concern for all Israel marriages. Thus Israel would have a law to guarantee those who died without any offspring to have their posterity through the help of the younger brothers.
Due to consecutive deaths of Judah's two sons, Judah became overprotective to his third son. Thus Tarmar was barred from getting a offspring from her husband's younger brother. In order to assure a posterity for her deceased husband, Thamar had to use cheating to get herself pregnant from her father in law.
Judah confessed that Thamar was more righteous than he was. I thought this would clarify for us the moral issues involved in this incidence. This might be also the turning point in the spirituality of Judah's life.
由 草戊尚土 於 2008年10月6日 上午 12:05 張貼在 草戊尚土靈修俱樂部