“So these are the Mi•shᵊpât•imꞋ:”

Khūp•âhꞋ

ט''ז‎ Marriage & Family

ט''ז‎ 1. Finding One's Life-Partner

(e.g. a bᵊtūl•âhꞋ who isn't an ō•râs•âhꞋ)

Tōr•âhꞋ-centric family units develop when children grow up. After a long and difficult search—litter­ed with countless mistaken hopes, a number of heartbreaks, growing discouragement and fears of failure that would mean a lifetime of loneliness, a Tōr•âhꞋ-centric young man and a Tōr•âhꞋ-centric young woman finally find their lifetime partner, marry and make a home together. Then they have children together, forming a new Tōr•âhꞋ-centric family unit – the next generation.

In Biblical times, millennia ago, ancient societies considered a woman to be a human kind of livestock, the personal property of a man, first of her father, and later of her husband. Consequently, ancient Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ decided all of their Biblical mi•shᵊpât•imꞋ associated with male-female relationships based on an assumption of male ownership and derived from property law.

Woman: Female Homo Sapien Human Person

Today, הָעוֹלָם הִשְׁתַּנָּה (mundus mutat­us), the more intellectually advanced societies hold that a woman is a female human being endowed by י‑‑ה with the same innate personal status and rights as a man. Therefore, the personal status and legal rights of a woman must derive from the same Tōr•âhꞋ Principles as the man.

Previous generations of rabbis have already reformed a number of the misderived laws, mistakenly based on ancient societies' misperceptions of women as livestock and property. Originalist methodology requires that all of the laws impacting the definition of the family unit (inter alia, gender-equal property rights, ni•ūphꞋ, geit) must be reexamined as derived from Tōr•âhꞋ being equal to (not the same as for) a man. In some cases, this will expand women's rights; in other cases it will certainly eliminate men's ownership rights over women — and children. Parental responsibilities are not property rights and, like females, nor can parental rights and responsibilities toward children be derived from property law.

If a man marries a bᵊtul•âhꞋ (who isn't an ō•râs•âhꞋ) by sexually coupling with her, it is still incumbent upon him to pay her mōꞋhar. Even if her father absolutely refuses to bless her marriage to him, he must still pay her the mōꞋhar due a bᵊtul•âhꞋ.

How real people today, claiming to be witches, look and behave (photo: Alaina Demopoulos/The Daily Beast)

ט''ז‎ 2. Not A Witch

A מְכַשֵּׁפָה shall not live.

ט''ז‎ 3. Not Bestiality

Anyone who sexually couples with an animal shall absolutely die.