now we get into this question of well what are the grounds for uh for a Biblical divorce because sometimes divorce happens and it doesn’t follow in these biblical kind of guidelines but I want to talk about what the rabbis um the the teachers of the ancient Israelites how they categorized the grants for biblical divorce there were there are three categories that they would use and underneath that we can flesh out um different distinctions but these are the three categories the first one is unfaithfulness unfaithfulness now it’s

really interesting I and you know this is what I do for fun last night I went through ancient near Eastern contracts as many as I could you know yeah because you know what that’s just what I want to do one evening at home I just want to go through ancient neary’s contracts that’s right after you do that while you’re watching basketball I was gonna say Jim knows me really well I was watching the Lakers game uh last night to watch the number two all-time greatest player of all time LeBron James um but the interesting thing about many

many many ancient near Eastern contracts and even many greco-romans so when I say ancient near Eastern I’m talking about Old Testament when I talk about Greco-Roman I’m talking about New Testament what is the commonality is unfaithfulness is almost always not present so we ask why why is that it’s because it’s assumed it’s like the oxygen that we breathe you know uh that I’m thinking about breathing and doing the breathing without actual like intentionality it’s just a natural response in the same way when these