Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Vayetze (Video #1)

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

Just going to it's partials by 8 say and There is a very famous Pasha that is asked. Why is it that Yakov avinu married two sisters? And according to many the two Bilhah and Zilpah were half sisters. They were also involved in something that would be a involved in something that would be a Issur for a person to do. So the Ramban takes an approach that he did it out of Eretz Yisrael. So once you're out of Eretz Yisrael and it was before Matan Torah, before the Torah was given, so he was allowed to do it. The Ksav Sofer The Ksav Sofer has a very unique I mean the Ksav Sofer was the son of the Chasam Sofer and he lived like a hundred and sixty years ago and he says that there the Issur to marry a sister the pasuk says is litzror bechayyeha. Litzror means to have bechayyeha. Litzror means to have trouble. The Isha el achota lo sika. A man should not marry a woman and her sister. Why? Litzror aleha bechayyeha. So that means that there will be litzror, there'll be tzaros between the two that there'll be jealousy if you marry two sisters. But if let's say if let's say chas v'shalom the wife dies so then you're allowed to marry the sister. Now we don't have in any of our listing of arayos such a a rule. In other words, if someone is not allowed to marry a uh the sister of a brother. So then you're you're just not allowed to do it ever. Even if the person dies, it doesn't die. The only place that the Torah makes a difference if the person is alive or not is by a sister. That you can marry the Novominsker's rebetzin passed away and he married her sister. Yes. Yes.

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