Sexuality in Jewish Law and Tradition 29 7. Ketubot 13b and parallels. 8. Pirke Avot 4:1. 9. Sukkah 52b. 10. Rashi ad loc.
11. Sanhedrin 107a Every Israelite, including Kings, was obliged to study halakhah. Here we see that King David failed to do his homework.
13. Babylonian Amora of the First Generation. The sages are identified according to Albeck, Hanoch, Mavo LaTalmudim, Tel Aviv , 1969.
14. BA2
15. Sanhedrin 75a.
16.“The more it changes, the more it is the same thing.” A French proverb.
17. Hilkhot Issurei Bi’ah 21:1.
18. Ibid. 21:2.
19. PAS.
20. Gen. Rabbah 9:7; Eccl. R. on Eccl. 3:11.
21. GF. Moore, Judaism (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1928)
22. See notes.
23. In the British sense of the word, see Oxford Concise Dictionary (Oxford : Oxford University Press
, Eighth ed, 1991), p. 219:“living together as husband and wife without being married to one another.”