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 »
Category: Marital laws
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Laser before Mikvah
Question: Hi, My wife has a home laser hair-removal machine that she likes to use before going to the mikvah. Since some of the places on her body are harder… Read more »
Drinking Breast Milk
Question: When a husband and wife are intimate at a time when the wife is (generally) nursing and the husband, while intimately kissing his wife, extracts some of the breastmilk… Read more »
Days Prohibited from Marital Relations
Question: What are the times a year a man and woman can’t be with each other? Answer: Aside from the times when she is a niddah and on the “onos”,… Read more »
Takanas Ezra and Baal Keri
If a person is makpid on takanas ezra and becomes a baal keri is there a problem with lets say shoes or something like that, that cannot be washed if… Read more »