2. A marriage between a Jew and an idolator is forbidden.
3. If a woman’s husband has died childless, and is survived by a brother, she can marry no one else than this brother until the latter has declined marriage with her in the prescribed form.
4. After the death of near relatives a marriage may not take place within thirty days.
5. A widow or divorced woman may not contract a new marriage within ninety days from the dissolution of her earlier marriage.
6. A pregnant woman may not marry before her delivery.
7. A widower may not marry before three feast days have passed since the death of his wife, but in case he is childless or his children require a mother’s care he may marry after seven days.
Divorce.—The Jewish law makes no distinction between divorce and annulment. The grounds for divorce are as follows:
1. Bigamy.
2. Difference of religion.
3. Relationship in the first degree in the direct line, by blood or marriage. No legal action is necessary for these three causes.