This is one of those very morally troubling halachos that show up in Judaism, see my post yesterday אשת יפת תואר Torah morality.
One interesting point that I would like to add is that the Jewish man is allowed to take a married woman (non-Jewish) as a יפת תואר and the halacha just ignores the fact that she is married. In other words, not only does the halacha sanction her rape, but it sanctions taking her away from her husband and family and allowing the rapist/soldier to marry her.
Halacha only recognizes marriage between a Jewish man and Jewish women. Anything else simply isn't marriage.
ReplyDeleteJust like Roman law only recognized marriage as between citizens. But of course that's a coincidence.