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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Biblical story about Joseph and Potiphar's wife is an example of the risks with yichud. In Jewish religious law , the laws of yichud (Hebrew: איסור ייחוד, romanized: issur yichud, lit. 'prohibition of seclusion') prohibit seclusion in a private area of a man and a woman who are not married to each other. Such seclusion is ...
The term does not occur in the Bible as a noun, [3] though the verb lishloach ("to send") is frequently used to describe sending a messenger or agent. [4]The first shaliaḥ inferred in the Bible is the servant in Genesis 24 who was sent by Abraham to find a wife for Isaac (according to the rabbis, this servant was named Eliezer).
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]
The mishnas (mishnayot) are devoted in the main to an exact definition of the rules of procedure in the case of a wife who was either actually or supposedly unfaithful.The mishnas discuss other rituals in which speech is a key component, such as egla arufa, breaking the heifer's neck; Hakheil, the Jewish King's septa-annual public Torah reading; and the Blessings and Curses of Mount Gerizim ...