Episode 4: Choosing a Wife

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Jewish marriage part four. So just to recap what we were discussing yesterday, we're discussing women that you're not allowed to marry and then hopefully today we'll finish up that discussion and we will talk about women that you should marry or who who you should marry. So yesterday we discussed we said that there were six categories of women that you're not allowed to marry. So just to go very quickly through it, we said the first category was women that you get cures for having relations with, right? Mostly in, you know, close right? Mostly in, you know, close relatives, the incest that's written in the Torah in Leviticus 18 and 20. The second category was the secondary incest, the cases of secondary incest, which are rabbitic in origin. There's no cur, there's no death penalty, it's just rabbitic law. The third category was through tradition. Kes that's not written in the Torah, but it's written in the prophets in the prophet of Malaki. Specifically, there's only one case in this category. That's the case of mar marrying or having relations with of mar marrying or having relations with a non-Jewish woman. The next category we discussed yesterday was the case of a person who violates a negative and positive commandment. And that was all the cases we discussed yesterday were cases of a cohen who marries somebody that he's not allowed to marry. So that's a positive and a negative violation. Today we're going to discuss two more categories. The fifth category is a category of pe of women that if you marry them, you violate a negative commandment. And the sixth

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1. 0:01Jewish marriage part four. So just to recap what we were discussing yesterday, we're discussing women…
2. 5:09other person is a momser and it was permitted. It doesn't matter if the other person…
3. 10:18even in the 10th generation they shall not enter the congregation of hem for eternity. Why?…
4. 15:22means that they're not allowed to marry a Jew of full lineage, a Jew who has…
5. 20:30So that's another pro another category of women that you're not allowed to marry. Women that…
6. 26:07>> I I haven't heard that it's a problem. So like I would assume it's probably…
7. 31:14So it's like on the one hand bismerching the you know the legacy of their of…
8. 36:25sense. >> I don't know I don't know specifically of a source that says exactly that…
9. 41:29Leashame moment. She's rich, so he's getting married. >> The shame moment means he's doing it…
10. 46:38>> Well, because the way I the way that somebody explained it to me was that…

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