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Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XCIII. Kabbalistic Remarks on Marriage

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SAID Rabbi Eleazar: "It is written, 'What shall we do for wives for them that remain?' (Jud. XXI. 7), and further it is added, 'Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin saying, go and lie in wait in the vineyards and catch you every man his wife, and see and behold if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances; then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you91b-92a every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh.' This incident in connection with the tribe of Benjamin shows how…

Zohar: Genesis: Chapter XCIII. Kabbalistic Remarks on Marriage

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