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Application of the mitzvah of marriage in Jewish men with Asperger’s Syndrome
It is a fact that a Jewish man who does not fulfill the mitzvah of getting married in the chuppah and having children will have to account for it in the Olam HaBa. There are also halachic cases in ...
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Mitzvot shanah rishonah mechilah
Could a wife be mochel the chiyuv of the husband with regards to the mitzvah of shanah rishonah
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Why is the first time a couple has marital relations called "beilas mitzvah?"
The gemara (Ketubot 4a) and poskim (Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 193:1) refer to the first time a couple having marital relations as "beilas mitzvah" (mitzvah of marital relations).
Being as the couple ...
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Marriage and p'ru urvu
An answer here states:
The mitzva of Pru Urvu covers only marrying someone believed to be
fertile.
And one here:
"The mitzva per se of pru urvu means: "marry someone who is able to
bear ...
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If the Torah tells us to love the stranger, וַאֲהַבְתֶּם, אֶת-הַגֵּר is there a command to love one's husband/wife?
If the Torah tells us to love the stranger, וַאֲהַבְתֶּם, אֶת-הַגֵּר is there a command to love one's husband/wife?
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Should someone who married outside of the Jewish community dump their family? [closed]
For example Yanky married a gentile. Should he dump her and his gentile kids according to the 56th commandment in Rambam's list? Or does that commandment means he should in no circumstance marry a ...
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Is getting married a Mitzva in its own right or a necessary precondition for another Mitzva?
Is getting married a Mitzva in its own right or a Hechsher Mitzvah (i.e. necessary precondition) for another Mitzva?
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Who is a bad wife? (that you are obligated to divorce?)
Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer 119.4 said that there's is a Mitzva to divorce one's bad wife.
אִשָּׁה רָעָה (ה) בְּדֵעוֹתֶיהָ, וְשֶׁאֵינָהּ צְנוּעָה כִּבְנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל הַכְּשֵׁרוֹת, מִצְוָה ...
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Is a gentile obliged to get married and multiply?
We all know that a Jew is obliged to get married and have children. It's considered that a man is not complete until he gets married. I am not sure if a Jew won't have a share in Olam HaBa if he/she ...
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Relations on Shabbat
It is my understanding that restrictions and prohibitions on the Sabbath more accurately concern "creating" or "destroying" rather than the stereotypical concept of "working". Why is it then ...
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Why does the Rambam (Maimonides) equate all sex outside marriage as prostitution?
Shalom told me about it in his answer to this question:
What does adultery mean in the 7th commandment?
That Si'naf in 7 commandments means only having sex with someone else' wife. However, judaism ...
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