Rabbi Michael Ravie • The Secret of the Wedding Ring and the Segula for Fertility

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"Is this from your own money?" even though the halachic authorities noted this matter. Why wouldn't they say that ? Why wouldn't they say that to the groom? Because there is a presumption —a presumption that if I, the father, buy him food, buy him a house, buy him a car, buy him everything, and take care of him, then I am also taking care of this for him, and I am giving it to him with the intention that he will be able to use it to sanctify her, that it should be his. To what can this be compared? You are performing a circumcision for your son; what, do you have to say, "I hereby appoint you as my agent to perform the circumcision"? No, you don't have to. The very fact that the mohel is standing next to you, what does that mean? That you appointed him. >> That you appointed him well, even if he didn't tell you, "You are my agent." So why, for one rabbi, do we also do this here at the chuppah and kiddushin, that we ask the groom, "Excuse me, is this yours? From your own money? Where did you get it?" That is for one rabbi, not just for show; it is for a specific purpose. There are authorities who

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2. 2:47was betrothed to him; I am sanctified to him. If I am sanctified to him, why…
3. 6:04couple who had a child a year after the wedding, and then for several years it…
4. 9:28here? Wait, is no one wearing a ring here? >> Who wears a ring here? No…
5. 12:39gives her the ring, he says: my lady, the world turns like a wheel, when a…
6. 16:28already seen that in the holy Zohar in the Tikkunim, it is explicitly written how a…
7. 19:09Now, Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, in "Rav Pe'alim," Part 2, "Sod Yesharim," Siman 1, and also in…
8. 22:17gold, and they gave several reasons for this. One reason they said: After a long time,…
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10. 28:51the last verse, what comes out there? It comes out on the second finger, gold comes…

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