Sexual Immorality
The exception for certain types of sexual immorality is extrapolated from Deuteronomy 22:26. Referring to the case of a betrothed girl who is raped by a man, it says, “for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter.” Thus sexual immorality is likened by the Torah to murder – and one is required to give one's life rather than commit murder, as discussed below.
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“The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.”
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