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  2. Ketubot (tractate) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Ketubah - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Jewish views on marriage - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Onah - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Women in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Yichud - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Thou shalt not commit adultery - Wikipedia

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    For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." [26] As "one flesh," the husband and wife share this right and privilege; the New Testament does not portray intimacy as something held in reserve by each spouse to be shared on ...

  9. Lieberman clause - Wikipedia

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    A modern ketubah (Jewish wedding contract).. The Lieberman clause is a clause included in a ketubah (Hebrew: כתובה Jewish wedding document), created by and named after Talmudic scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor Saul Lieberman, that stipulates that divorce will be adjudicated by a modern bet din (rabbinic court) in order to prevent the problem of the agunah, a ...