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A ketubah (plural: ketubot) (in Hebrew: כְּתוּבָּה; plural: כְּתוּבּוׂת) is a special type of Jewish prenuptial agreement. It is considered an integral part of a traditional Jewish marriage, and describes the groom's rights and responsibilities towards the bride.
The content of the ketubah is in essence a two-way contract that formalizes the various requirements by Halakha (Jewish law) of a Jewish husband vis-à-vis his wife. The Jewish husband takes upon himself in the ketubah the obligation that he will provide to his wife three major things: clothing, food and conjugal relations, [16] and also that ...
According to the non-traditional view, in the Bible the wife is treated as a possession owned by her husband, [25] but later Judaism imposed several obligations on the husband, effectively giving the wife several rights and freedoms; [25] indeed, being a Jewish wife was often a more favourable situation than being a wife in many other cultures ...
A man without a wife lives without joy, blessing, and good; a man should love his wife as himself and respect her more than himself. [20] When Rav Yosef b. Hiyya heard his mother's footsteps he would say: Let me arise before the approach of the divine presence. [21] Israel was redeemed from Egypt by virtue of its (Israel's) righteous women. [22]
According to medieval Rabbinical enumerations of the 613 commandments, the commandment to procreate (Genesis 1:28) is the first mitzvah in the Torah. [3] This commandment was understood by the rabbis to be only binding on men; women are exempt, though minority views imposed the obligation on both men and women. [4]
Michael Coogan says that in the Hebrew Bible, there is no prohibition of premarital or extramarital sex for men, except for adultery, i.e. having sex with the wife of another man. [6] A man's sexual history was never an issue (thus no such thing as a virginity requirement for men); [ 7 ] there was no ban on men having sex with unmarried women ...
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The Biblical source for the command is Exodus 21:10, which states that if a man takes a second wife in addition to the woman he has taken as a first wife, he may not withhold from either, food, clothing or diminish the frequency with which he cohabits with the first wife. If the former wife has such rights, then it follows that all wives have ...