I was thinking about this since someone made a comment on another post talking about tribal statuses. A woman as most people know, gains tribal status when she marries her husband, and her children acquire that status (all assuming her husband is born Jewish). We don’t know who is who outside of Shevet Levi (and there is no guarantee people who claim Levite or kohain status actually are those statuses), but assuming we lived in the 2nd temple era, what would happen to a woman who divorced her husband?
Her tribal affiliation is through her husband, so without his protection and family, would she be destitute? Would she go back to her own father’s house? What if her father wasn’t a Jew and she was a Ger, would she return to her families’ house?
In the case of death of her husband, I assume it would revert to the closest male relative? So if he had sons them? Was her security dependent then on her children in this instance?
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