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Our new Mishna is the start of Perek VI. The Mishna teaches that intercourse is valid in yibum regardless of consent, coercion, or type of intercourse. Further, any type of intercourse between a yavam and a yevama who is forbidden to him by Torah or rabbinical law disqualifies the yevama from marrying into the priesthood.
We return to the issue of consent and the halachic ramifications of nonconsensual intercourse, i.e.rape.
We review modern issues of coercive relationships and the feminist readings of the rape of Dinah.
And the Reskin/Greenberg debate with Grodimer regarding homosexuality in orthodoxy, the Stanford rape case and Hervey Weinstein’s influence on the discourse.
Finally the use of rape and adultery in the midrash of Toldos Yeshu.