Is It Right to Borrow Money for a Lavish Wedding?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

another online question from an anonymous questioner my wife and I are trying I'm not sure this is really a philosophical question but is the question anyway my wife and I are trying to maintain a wedding expense budget but we heard that a wedding a budget for their weddings for their kids weddings and they heard that other people go into debt to marry off their children why are there not important more than not firm rules on this important life cycle firm rules I'm not sure you know we I guess Beyond common sense why aren't there halachas that mandate that people can spend more than they could afford on things well I'll put it this way uh to borrow money is not a terrible thing in itself as long as you avoid to pay it back if you can't don't worry you're going to pay back from then you have no right to

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1. 0:00another online question from an anonymous questioner my wife and I are trying I'm not sure…
2. 0:33firm rules I'm not sure you know we I guess Beyond common sense why aren't there…
3. 1:03pay back from then you have no right to borrow so those people if they put…
4. 1:34cards are more to build it up so easy to use a credit card we're paying…
5. 2:04job and they can pay back after a few months whatever they can pay back so…
6. 2:35everything a lot of things the pharah wants us to use our intellect use our cycle…

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