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I think you are misunderstanding what that opinion held. The text of Ibn Ezra is (to Lev 18:22):
ויאמר רב חננאל ז"ל, כי יש מי שיחדש בגופו כצורת בשר אשה וזה לא יתכן בתולדה. וי"א אנדרוגינוס. וכל הצער הזה בעבור היות משכבי אשה לשון רבים. ודברי יחיד שני משכבים. והנכון בעיני, כי המצוה כפשוטה. גם אנשי התושיה חייבו מיתה עליה והכתוב אחז דרך כבוד לאמר כמו לא תקרב, ...
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This interpretation that the Ibn Ezra mentions and rejects is an interpretation of the simple meaning (p'shat) of the verse (Vayikra 18:22). It is likely that the Ibn Ezra rejects this as the simple meaning of the verse because it's doesn't make sense in the context of Vayikra 20:13, which explicitly refers to two males.
Regardless, for halachic purposes, ...
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This is an excellent question that is best asked to your local Orthodox rabbi.
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One important aspect of the question, which should not be minimized, is the public humiliation to the bride, who will be mortified that her lack of virginity will be revealed to her friends and family. Chazal say (Berachot 43b) about embarrassing someone in public that it ...
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To intentionally read the Ketubah errantly is problematic. Our modern custom of reading the Ketubah comes from two primary halakhot in the Shulhan Arukh:
Choshen Mishpat 45:2
2 If the Head of the Beis Din is familiar generally with the document,
and his personal scribe who he trusts and who fears him reads it to
him, he may sign the Shtar without ...
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For starters: in Ashkenazic custom (which I think the questioner was assuming), the kesubah has already been signed (i.e. executed) before the chupah, so the reading is nothing more than a pause between parts of the ceremony. It's accomplishing nothing of a halachic nature any more than reading the latest stock numbers would be, hence many rabbis have been ...
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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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I believe the last Tosfos on Gittin 41a answers your question.
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As the comments have indicated, this is a judgment call.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein allows a synagogue to give an aliyah to someone who does not personally practice all the mitzvahs (though he writes it is not preferable). (He feels that the card-carrying Reform rabbis of several decades ago, however, did not believe in the sanctity of the Torah being read and ...
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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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