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... > Religion and Magic > non-Christian religions (including institutions, customs and antiquities) > Jewish religion and culture > the Jews, Jewish life > marriage and divorce ~ Jewish customs > levirate marriage ~ Jewish customs > 'halizah', a widow pulls off a shoe from the foot of her brother-in-law (thus liberating themselves from levirate marriage)

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12A7321'halizah', a widow pulls off a shoe from the foot of her brother-in-law (thus liberating themselves from levirate marriage)  

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Subject

  • brother-in-law
  • ceremony
  • culture
  • halizah
  • Jew
  • Jewish religion
  • levirate marriage
  • liberating
  • marriage
  • non-Christian religion
  • religion
  • rite
  • shoe
  • supernatural
  • widow

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  • 12A7321

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