Are Separate and Enclosed Bedrooms Sufficient?
Daily Study of the Noahide Code of Laws
The Divine Code for February 6, 2023
Today: Page 467
Topic Chapter 7:9 - 7:10
If a married woman and another man are the only people in a house with two bedrooms, the man should not sleep in one room if the married woman is sleeping in the other room, even if each locks their own rooms separately.
The restriction against seclusion applies when a Noahide man is alone with one or two women, even if his wife is one of them.
A woman should not be alone with two men unless one of them is her husband
Reading schedule of the Divine Code
Yesterday's Study Topic: 7:4 - 7:8
Tomorrow's Study Topic: 7:11 - 7:15
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Sources: The Divine Code (4th edition) by Rabbi Moshe Weiner
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You might think that a man would not enter into a relationship with the other woman when his own wife is also there. But maybe she is not protecting her husband, and he is sinning with the other woman. It is written in Rambam, Laws of Forbidden Sexual Relations: A Gentile's wife is not assumed to guard him. Does this answer your question
The restriction against seclusion applies when a Noahide man is alone with one or two women, even if his wife is one of them.
Could you explain this part to me?