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partner555
Since: Dec, 2010

A never-married Jewish woman had a relationship from which a baby was born. It's critical that this fact stay hidden from her community; however, once she marries (this is absolutely expected of her) and starts having children (also expected), there would be religious complications if the "first born" is a son due to the requirement of Pidyon HaBen (religious redemption the first born son). She marries a Levi (a man whose family tradition is that he is a patrilinial descent of Jacob's third son, Levi) because a Levi's son is exempt from Pidyon HaBen, thereby getting around the religious complication.
Edited by Someone1981