Pilegesh

Pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ, Biblical Hebrew pronunciation: [pʰi.ˈlɛgɛʃ], possibly related to Ancient Greek: παλλακή, romanized: pallakē, lit. 'young woman') is a term from the Hebrew Bible for a concubine, a female, unmarried sexual slave of social and legal status inferior to that of a wife.

Among the Israelites, some men acknowledged their pilgashím, who thus had the same rights in the home as legal wives.

Despite Maimonides' notable dissension, Jewish textual scholars, including Nahmanides, Jacob Emden and the head of the beth din of Akdamot in Jerusalem, have concluded that taking a woman as a concubine is allowed in contemporary Jewish culture.

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