26 Moshe Zemer is unlikely that the founder of psychoanalysis was influenced, let alone acquainted, with rabbinic literature on these subjects.

UNMARRIED COUPLE LIVING TOGETHER

Almost every couple whom I have joined in marriage these last few decades were living together before they entered the Auppah. My colleagues also report that cohabitation” among young couples is an almost universal phenomenon. Those who opposed this phenomenon relied on R. Eliezer, who said:“An unmarried man who has sex with a single woman, not for the sake of marriage, makes her a zonah!”** Here zonah means a woman who has had a sexual relationship, which disqualifies her for marriage to a kohen. His biblical proof text is—“There will not be a kedeshah among the daughters of Israel.” The kedeshah, in contrast, is a professional prostitute.

Maimonides follows R. Eliezer in codifying the Torah precept:“There shall be no kedeshah among the daughters of Israel.” Anyone who has licentious sex with a woman without kiddushin, therefore, is liable to receive a beating according to the Torah , because he had sex with a prostitute. In his ruling the Rambam does not distinguish between the zonah, on the one hand, who may have had one sex relationship, which disqualified her from marrying one of priestly descent, and the kedeshah, the professional prostitute, on the other.“There shall be no kedeshah among the daughters of Israel.” Therefore, anyone who has licentious sex with a woman without kiddushin is liable to receive a beating according to the Torah , because he had sex with a prostitute.”” R. Abraham ben David( Ravad), the most prominent glossator of the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam , disagrees in his customary manner but adds another dimension to the subject, the concubine(pilegesh):“Kedeshah is a woman who is temporarily invited and profligates with anyone. On the other hand, in the case of a pilegesh(concubine) who has an