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בדפיו ד"ה וביותר, וספר המקנה נו-א אות כא Would say that the positive commandment of Being Fruitful and Multiplying may override the negative commandment of "marriage" without proper Kiddushin. …

One big one that I know of and have experienced is that when assessing if the children of this marriage are Jewish later in life, many times the parents' Kesuba will be taken as important evidence of that …

I think that is what Rashi is answering: נאסרה ע"י קידושין A woman who has Kiddushin, but not Nissuin, is forbidden to everybody.

(ibid. 1:4) Either way, marriage in Judaism is not considered a "compromise" or an "allowance." …

Besides the multiple practical problems with this approach (including the fact that the woman has to agree to accept the Mitzvos or you have to sell away her within a year, at which point, why won't s …

The Rashbam interprets the verse (Numbers 12:1) as a reference to the Ethopian wife he married but never consummated the relationship with when he was the king of Ethiopia.

The Ba'al HaTanya writes in Torah Or about this Halacha: אך דהנה ידוע שהדבר שברצון נק' פנים ומה שהוא נגד רצונו נק' אחור ובשעת מ"ת היה כל רצון ישראל אליו ית' וכל עניני הגוף היה בבחי' אחור. כמארז"ל על …

The straight forward answer is provided by the Maggid Mishna that this establishes what constitutes a marriage for non-Jews. … The Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likkutei Sichos Vol. 39 p. 30ff) adds that this also establishes something about the nature of marriage - that it is fundamentally about a man and woman living together and not an …

If a man has a child from a previous wife, but has not fulfilled the Mitzvah of Piriah Veriviah and divorces his wife because they were unable to have children for 10 years, does his demonstrated fert …

The Rama, however (E.H. 1:3 and 154:10) says that in most issues of marriage issues we no longer force anybody to do these things (insist they get married, insist they divorce, etc.). …

Well, having been through this before my own wedding, I can tell you some of the things that are looked out for: Ketuba - this really functions as an attestation from a previous Beis Din that the pe …

My translation: In these days, for many reasons (including also - reasons of Yiras Shamayim [דיר"ש = דיראת שמים]) it is not a desirable thing to commit oneself and how much more so [ועאכו"כ = ועל …

The expression פלג גופא in reference to a person without a spouse is in the Zohar Volume 3 in several places (7b, 109b, and 296a). Although there is some discussion in the comments here about פלג mea …

Since a Kohen is limited in their options for marrying, many older (35 years or more, possibly earlier) Kohanim have a very limited pool of marriage possibilities. …

Can a woman whose father's father isn't Jewish, but whose father's mother is a regular Jew, and whose mother is the child of two converts marry a Cohen? On the one hand she isn't purely from converts …