Friday, March 29, 2019

history - Earliest documentation of kissing



What are the earliest sources you know of that mention kissing (be it romantic, familial, kissing mezuzos/tefillin/torah etc.)? There are obvious tznius issues when it comes to people kissing other people, so perhaps that is a separate question.


I ask because it would appear that kissing may not be an originally Jewish invention. There is (secular) documentation that many non-Jewish groups practiced kissing, both romantic and otherwise going back approximately three thousand years, at least in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.




Answer



Brashis 27:27 is the earliest source in the Torah of kissing. This was when Yaakov kissed Yitzchok prior to the Brachos.


ויגש וישק לו וירח את ריח בגדיו ויברכהו ויאמר ראה ריח בני כריח שדה אשר ברכו יהוה


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