Personal Contact Between Women
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Question
Hello Rabbi, My husband is a reservist soldier, and it's really hard for me to be alone. I have a friend who also lives alone, so I sometimes sleep over at her place, and it turns out that at night, because I miss my husband, we engage with each other. Is this allowed?
Answer
Hello.
A marital relationship between women is forbidden by the Torah.
As our sages said, 'Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, etc.', and what did they do: a man would marry a man, and a woman a woman'. This is also explained in the Rambam as a prohibition from the Torah.
Source
Sifra (Acharei Mot, Chapter 8), Rambam (Hilchot Issurei Bi'ah, Chapter 21, Halacha 8), Shulchan Aruch (Even HaEzer, Siman 20, Seif 2).