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Same name for mother n law and daughter n law

Question: Hello My daughter was suggested a shidduh and mother of the young man has the same first name. My daughter has a second name that she is not using…. Read more »

Marital laws
10/01/2021
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Sleeping arrangement after menopause

Question: What is the Halacich/Chasidic attitude to One or Two beds after the Menopause, After the natural Two week cycles have stopped? Is there something else to take the place… Read more »

Marital laws
07/01/2021
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Marrying two wives before the cherem of Rabbeinu Gershom

Question: Before the cherem of Rabbeinu Gershom when it was permitted to marry two wives: 1) Did the husband need the permission of his first wife to marry a second… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage
14/11/2020
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Mamzerim and the Mitzva of Having Children

Question: Shalom, Rabbi! Are male mamzerim still obligated to have children? Wouldn’t it be a bad thing to create more mamzerim? Thank you. Answer: You are bringing up a very valid… Read more »

Marital laws mamzer pru urvu
01/11/2020
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Should couples have multiple ketubot?

Question: Nowadays, it is very common for Jewish couples to get artistic and decorative ketubot for their wedding. I understand that the ketubah does not need to be artistic, and… Read more »

Marital laws kesubah
18/08/2020
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chalitza

Question: Does a ninety year old widow , not intending to remarry and husband was childless, need chalitza? Answer: Yes, the mitzva of chalitza is not just in order for… Read more »

Marital laws chalitza
11/08/2020
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Is a husband allowed to leave his wife in his first year of marriage?

Question: Is there a halacha about the husband not being able to stay away from his wife in his first year of marriage? Answer: Yes there is such an idea,… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage Shana Rishona
26/07/2020
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Requirements to be a witness at a wedding

Question: I had the zechut of setting up two of my friends and they will be getting married in two weeks As a token of their gratitude they have asked… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage wedding witness
21/07/2020
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Prohibition of having children in difficult times

Question: BS”D Why is it forbidden to have children and marital relationships in times of calamity or difficult? Answer: The reason is that when Klal Yisroel is going through a… Read more »

Marital laws COVID-19 corona marital relations
20/05/2020
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tashmish in a time of tzora

Question: We learn from Noah’s Ark and Yosef in Egypt that one should not engage in marital relations at a time of trouble. Is the present covid19 situation one which… Read more »

Marital laws
26/03/2020
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Marital relations during corona virus pandemic.

Question: Is one allowed to have marital relations during these difficult times? Answer: It is a hard question to answer. It is questionable if the current situation is strong enough… Read more »

Marital laws
26/03/2020
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Female purity

Question: Shalom, I would like some advice about how important it is to be a virgin before marriage. If someone is not a virgin, should measures to taken to have… Read more »

Marital laws
26/03/2020
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woman divorced – what time has to pass before a new marriage

Question: Sholem. If a woman is divorced, three jewish months have to pass before she can remarry. is that right? a gut shabbes when it arrives, Answer: It is slightly… Read more »

Marital laws Divorce Marriage
09/02/2020
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Extramarital relations

Question: If a Jewish woman, married to a Jewish man, has an affair with a gentle, is she permitted to her husband? Answer: Without knowing any specifics, on a theoretical… Read more »

Marital laws adultery married woman
04/01/2020
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Jew only by Jewish mother

Question: BS”D Shalom dear Rabbi, Question: Why is only Jewish who is born of a Jewish mother is Jew, have a specific halakha, in the Torah explains both oral and… Read more »

Marital laws intermarriage
02/12/2019
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Relations with Bnai Noach

Question: Is a Jew allowed to have a non-Jewish wife who is not a shifcha knaanis but is a BAS NOACH. In other words, even according to the elusive gemara… Read more »

Marital laws marital relations with non-Jew
22/09/2019
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Nursing after relations

Question: Is there a halachic or other problem with nursing a crying baby right after relations? Thank you, yashar kochachem and tizku lmitzvos Answer: The poskim say that for kabala… Read more »

Marital laws marital relations nursing
20/06/2019
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Relationship with a minor

Question: It is said that Talmud passages declare a man’s right of seducing and marrying 3-yr old baby girls. Simeon ben Yohai upheld the privilege. Kethuboth 11b When a grown… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage
02/06/2019
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Chashivus of having boy over girl

Question: Chazal discuss the chashivus of having a son versus a daughter. How are we to approach this in 5779? I wonder if our view may have a changed over… Read more »

Marital laws boys children girls pru urvu
25/03/2019
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Currency Ketuva Amount

Question: Is the written tosefet ketuva amount that is written in the ketuva debatable? Meaning that the tosefet ketuva was specified in US dollars & not the currency where the… Read more »

Marital laws kesubah
22/11/2018
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Does a wife need to ask her husband before she spends money

Question: Must a wife ask her husband before she spends money? What if she wants to go for therapy or to a Rav and he won’t respect it? He never… Read more »

Marital laws ketuba
11/11/2018
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kesuba

Question: I’m not sure where my kesubah is…is that a problem? Answer: Yes it is, try to locate it, if not you may have to go to a Rov and… Read more »

Marital laws ketuba
25/10/2018
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והוסיפ לה מן דיליה

Question: I understand the principle of the tosefet, but I don’t understand the logic of this sentence – “and he added TO HER from his possessions an amount of 100… Read more »

Marital laws kesubah
03/10/2018
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Marrying someone who is physically incapable of having children

Question: Is it permissible for one to marry someone who, due to some medical treatment to save their life, is physically incapable of having children? Answer: It is very good… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage
03/09/2018
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Change of family name after marriage

Question: Hello kvod harav, I wanted to ask if a woman gets married under the chuppah according to halacha, must she change her family name to her husband’s last name… Read more »

Marital laws changing name
17/08/2018
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Donating money that one didn’t earn

Question: Our parents (may they live in good health to 120) are living basically off their savings, my mother’s pension and the little teaching that she does. My father often… Read more »

Marital laws Charity
13/07/2018
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Spouses previous earnings

Question: When she has previous earnings from her own work from before marriage, does this also belong to the the husband now that they’re married? Answer: Without knowing the situation,… Read more »

Marital laws nichsei melug
12/07/2018
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Spaces between words in ketubah

Question: Are substantial spaces between words in a ketubah problematic? If so, how problematic? Thank you Answer: It is not meakev, and the kesubah is still kosher, however if they… Read more »

Marital laws kesubah
08/05/2018
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Causing a Miscarriage

Question: My wife is pregnant within the first 40 days. I think I had improper thoughts while having relations with her that night (Not sure when she conceived exactly). I… Read more »

Marital laws abortion marital relations
16/01/2018
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Birth Control for Male married to Convert

Question: I read that birth control for males is prohibited, and those who have vasectomies are not allowed to marry a Jewish woman who was Jewish from birth. However, if… Read more »

Marital laws birth control
02/01/2018
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Im single and would like to use a tampon

Question: Im single and would like to use a tampon would it brake my bsulim Answer: It is not a advisable for a single girls to use a tampon for… Read more »

Marital laws girls
25/12/2017
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Marriage

Question: Is it true that a Jewish girl have to be married at 12 or 14? Some sources stated that Jewish girls were usually married in their mid teen years… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage
22/11/2017
  • Marital laws

Intimacy question

Question: if you had one time intimate relationship with a fellow jew (one night stand situation), does that mean you are married to them according to Jewish law? If so, do… Read more »

Marital laws Divorce intimacy
02/11/2017
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A women that makes extra wool

Question: Cariflication for #44531-The gemara kesubos 66a debates a case where a women makes extra wool that she is required from the rabbis can she keep the wool or must… Read more »

Marital laws wife's earnings
18/10/2017
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Marrying before Older Sibling

Question: Kavod HaRav Is there any halachic source for not dating/getting married before one’s older siblings Is there a non-halachic reason for this ? Obviously one feels for the older… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage siblings
02/10/2017
  • Marital laws

Makor that marriage between Jew and non-Jew is not a marriage

Question: Where does it say that when chas v’chalilah a Jew and a non-Jew ‘marry’ this marriage is not valid according to Halacha? Is it because there is no kiddushin?… Read more »

Marital laws intermarriage kiddushin non-Jew
24/09/2017
  • Marital laws

Issur on geirus for the sake of marriage

Question: Good morning. I read in Kitzur Shulchan Aruch laws of marriage 18&19 that when there is a rumor that a man and a non-Jewish woman had relations R”L, it… Read more »

Marital laws geirus immodesty Marriage
24/09/2017
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Ketooba

Question: I have lost my ketooba what can I do? Answer: You need to to go a rov and your husband has to write what is called a “ketuba d’irchisa”,… Read more »

Marital laws ketuba
16/09/2017
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3 noshim meshamshos bimoch

Question: I haven’t learned the sugya in a long time but as I recall Tosfos learns this as referring to cleaning the private area after intercourse. Based on his shita… Read more »

Marital laws douche married woman
10/09/2017
  • Marital laws

Discussing marital noted fog

Question: Dear Rabbi, If a Jew is aware a non orthodox Jew did not marry a Jewish spouse but thinks she is Jewish by a reform conversion, can the Jew… Read more »

Marital laws intermarriage
21/06/2017
  • Marital laws
  • Modesty

Assur li’baal

Question: Hi. If a married woman sleeps with another man, but they have protected sex (ie: with a condom) is she then forbidden to her husband? Answer: Yes she is… Read more »

Marital laws Modesty married woman sexual relations
21/04/2017
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Ya’amod HaChassan…

Question: In yeshivas, a bachur is called for an aliyah as “HaChassan” so-and-so, even though he is not a chassan at all. What is the reason for this minhag? Answer:… Read more »

Marital laws chasan
20/02/2017
  • Divorces
  • Marital laws

Remarriage after Jewish divorce without civil divorce

Question: Hello, If a couple divorced under Jewish law (wife received a get at beis din) but still has to wait a year to receive a civil divorce and the… Read more »

Divorces Marital laws civil marriage Divorce
03/02/2017
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Can a couple have a Jewish wedding without a previous marriage get?

Question: Can a couple have a Jewish wedding without a previous marriage get? Answer: A married woman MUST have a valid get rom her first husband in order to remarry,… Read more »

Marital laws get Marriage
11/01/2017
  • Marital laws

Acquiring in kiddushin and a get.

Question: Rabbi, Am I correct in my understanding of the Talmud (Tractate Kiddushin) and related Halacha? In Kiddushin 2A, it states that a wife is acquired by money, a contract,… Read more »

Marital laws get kiddushin
07/01/2017
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A couple that had a conservative wedding

Question: B”H A couple that got married by a conservative rabbi. The Eidim were also not Shomer Shabbos. What is needed for them to have a kosher wedding, (of course… Read more »

Marital laws Marriage witnesses
05/01/2017
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Kesubah for giores before age three

Question: After learning through Mishnayos Kesubos, Iearned that a Ger that was converted before age 3, her kesubah would entitle her to the full 200 zuz. My wife was indeed… Read more »

Marital laws ger kesubah
04/01/2017
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  • Wedding

Owning the wedding ring

Question: I would just like to know the brief halachos of owning the wedding ring I understand it has to belong to the chosson, What happens if his parents bought… Read more »

Marital laws Wedding Marriage ring
24/11/2016
  • Marital harmony - Shalom bayit
  • Marital laws

Minimal amount for marital relations

Question: Is there a minimal amount of time which a husband must have marital relations? What if the husband does very infrequently and the wife does not complain? Answer: Most… Read more »

Marital harmony - Shalom bayit Marital laws
29/09/2016
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  • Monetary Law and Charity

Permitted intimacy options when there are medical issues

Question: Hi Rav, My wife and I have 2 children Baruch hashem. She is also currently 18 weeks pregnant. However due to complications we are not allowed to have intercourse… Read more »

Marital laws Monetary Law and Charity
11/08/2016
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