Justina Married at Six and the Sages' Rule About Eleven

Gaster, The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924), No. 247

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·April 19, 2026

Justina, the daughter of Asverus, married at six, and had a child at seven years old. The sages remark that one cannot have a child before eleven.

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