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The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 68:4, and other places) tells a story involving R. Yosei ben Chalafta and a Roman lady, where he tells her that since the six days of creation Hashem occupies Himself with making matches and redistributing wealth ("the daughter of A will marry B; the wife of C will marry D; the assets of E will go to F"); she mocks this and ...
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Halichos Shlomo 1 1:7 says that a lady who gets married to someone who holds that it is required to wait 3 hours after eating meat before eating dairy, and until now she always held 6 hours, may change her Minhag to her husbands and is not required to do Hataras Nedarim.
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Judaism has thrived on retaining what is holy under difficult and seemingly impossible situations.
Judaism views unlike christianity and others sexuality as special, precious and holy only when it includes G-d in the picture but when it becomes nothing more then animalistic and materialistic then it can degrade oneself and humanity.
Judaism within a ...
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During the week before the wedding the Chasson and Kallah do not see each other, so she can't go to the Aufruf.
Instead they hold a Shabbos Kallah for her. There is no source that I could find that requires this, it's just something people do to make the Kallah happy.
Note that this is an Ashkenazi custom, Sefardim don't have an Aufruf or a Shabbos Kallah.
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In addition, after the story of Pilegesh Begiv'ah there was a restriction against marrying any boy of the tribe Binyomin until it was nullified. See Shoftim (Judges) chapter 21.
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Basically a member of any tribe could marry any other tribe; tribal identity is passed through the father. If Susan, an Asher-ite, marries Bob, a Levite, their children are Levites. (You'd probably still identify Susan herself as being from the tribe of Asher, but it doesn't affect that much. E.g. we're told that Samson's father was from Dan, but his mother ...
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Shulchan Aruch OC 339:4 rules that one should not perform Kiddushin (betrothal) or Nissuin (marriage) on Shabbat or Yom Tov. However he notes that if one did so, even on purpose, it works and the couple is fully married.
The prohibition originates in the Mishna (Beitza 5:2). The Babylonian Talmud (36b per Tosfot) explains that this is a rabbinic prohibition ...
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It is important to note that the husband must "believe" his wife in order for them to need a divorce.
There is a very pertinent teshuva from R' Moshe Feinstein (אגרות משה אה"ע א' סימן כ"ד) in which he writes that the criteria for "belief" is different from what one may imagine. In essence, according to him, even if a husband says he believes his wife, we ...
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The Talmud prescribes extra blessings to be said at any after-parties held several days after the wedding; if it's an "encore wedding" (as Miss Manners would say), that period is a few days shorter.
But as for the dancing at the wedding itself, it's really a matter of taste decided by the people involved. My impression is the most common ...
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As I understand it, if a Kohen is certain that his wife was violated by another man, their union is now prohibited and a divorce would be needed. A kohen is prohibited from being married to an isha zonah, which the Talmud defines as a woman who has had relations with any man -- regardless of her choice in the matter! -- other than her husband, with the ...
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In "Gray Matter - Discourses in Contemporary Halachah", Rabbi Chaim Jachter explores various proposed solutions to the Agunah problem, including the idea of instituting a condition that would retroactively annul the marriage in the event of civil divorce. He writes that such a suggestion was made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by some ...
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There are some mitzvos that one must fulfill only if puts himself in a situation in which the opportunity for the mitzva presents itself. For example, there is a mitzva of writing a bill of divorce (get) when divorcing one's wife. One who does so fulfills a mitzva, God's command. However, divorcing one's wife just so as to have the opportunity to do it via a ...
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Maybe the question is if there is a mitzvah to be married to a besulah or if he can only fulfill the mitzvah when he actually marries a besulah, so if he was married before he will not have the mitzvah only if he gets divorced and marries a besula while he is a cohen godel.
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A Kohen cannot marry the people mentioned above. But that is only if he is 'still' a kohen and not himself a 'chollol'.
Many BT Kohanim are themselves challolim that would allow them to marry anybody.
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