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Intro

  • Invite participants to introduce themselves.  Introduce useful things to know about Tamar (see “Helpful Things for Teachers to Know about Tamar” in the Documents section), especially levirate marriage: the fact that in the ancient world, if a man died without leaving any children, his wife was entitled to marry his younger brother.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Intro." (Viewed on December 25, 2024) <https://jwa.org/node/22760>.