Questions tagged [kiddushin-eirusin]
betrothal; the first stage in marriage
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Can a Nidah do Kedushin?
Would a man giving a nidah a ring be an issue, since usually a husband can't hand their wife something when they are nidah?
Also, would both of them being isolated for nisuin be an issue?
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Can Nissuin be done before kiddushin
According to Halacha, is it permitted for Jews to do Nissuin before kiddushin, and if so, when is the Seudat mitzvah? Or no, does kiddushin necessarily have to proceed Nissuin?
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Is kiddushin which a man was coerced to do valid
According to Halacha, if a man was coerced/forced to do kiddushin to a woman, under threat of penalty (from say a Beit Din) is that a valid kiddushin? Or no, since this was done against his true will ...
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Insurance as kiddushin Kessef
According to Halacha, could insurance paid for by a man be given to a woman to count as a “Kiddushin Kessef”? Does it count as a value that the man owns that could legitimately be used. The reason ...
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Was Yaakov's kidushin to Leah valid?
It says in Masechet Bava Batra 123a:
אָמַר לָהּ מִינַּסְבַתְּ לִי אָמְרָה לֵיהּ אִין מִיהוּ אַבָא רַמָאָה הוּא וְְלאֹ יָכְלַתְּ לֵיהּ אָמַר לָהּ מַאי רַמָּאוּתֵיהּ אֲמָרָהּ לֵיהּ אִית לִי אַחְתָּא ...
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Orthodox Lieberman clause
Have there been any Orthodox Rabbis who recognize the Saul Lieberman clause in a Ketubah or something similar to it? I understand originally there was working together between Joseph B. Soloveitchik ...
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R Yitzchak Yosef on kiddushin with ger toshav
Page 31 of this paper gives a Hebrew extract from Shulchan ha-Ma’arechet by R Yitzchak Yosef, in which the author argues that kiddushin is possible between a Jew and a ger toshav. Apparently it comes ...
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When will the "marriage" between G-d and Am Yisrael be completed?
There is a Midrash that explains that this worlds serves as the "engagement of Am Yisrael with Hashem" and that the world-to-come will serve as the marriage itself. See Yechidus, Eve of 17th ...
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Betrothal without witnesses? [duplicate]
According to rabbis Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer (1932-211), engagement through sexual intercourse did not require witnesses, it was sufficient a declaration of the will to marry the woman:
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Can there be kiddushin between a Ger Toshav and a Jew?
I came across an article that quoted Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef in his Shulchan Ha'ma'arechet, (it didn't give an exact reference,) as saying that Kiddushin can be effected between a Ger Toshav, meaning a ...
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Chuppah, Kiddushin in ברכת אירוסין
Why do we say על ידי חופה וקידושין, mentioning chuppah first when kiddushin takes place before chuppah (nisuin)?
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Did the designation of an amah ivriyah by her master require the consent of the woman or not?
I’am an Italian noahide.
Rambam states in his Sefer Hamitzvot (English translation by Rabbi Berel Bell):
“The 233rd mitzvah is that a person is commanded to marry his amah
ivriyah. Either her ...
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Information of Kiddushin 41a
Shalom. I have a doubt that assails me.
In this text from Talmud (b.Kiddushin 41a) the marriage of a minor is not prohibited but not recommended, in contrast to laws that allow it (b.Sanhedrin 54b, ...
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Can a witness at Kiddushin have had committed inconsequential crimes?
I remember hearing in the name of Rav Moshe Feinstein that a criminal who-- by normal and objective standards-- should be invalidated from testifying can still be considered a Kosher witness if his ...
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Who is rich in matters of courtship?
The Mishna says: If a man says to a woman, "Marry me. I am rich.", and she agrees, but it turns out he is poor, the betrothal is not valid. If a man says to a woman, "Marry me, even though I am poor."...
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