A Good Reason to get Married (Parshat Vayishlach)

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

a famous story of a man who was married for 50 years and they asked him usually after 50 years of marriage a person is very tired very worn out and after 50 years of marriage you look amazing you're tanned you're handsome you're young you're vibrant how do you do it and so he responded you know when my wife and i first got married we decided that we would never fight in the house and therefore every time an argument would come up i would take a walk out in the cool fresh year 50 years in the cool fresh air you got to look good okay in this week's torah portion we are told what is the reason to get married why should he get married let's see over here what the torah tells us in chapter number 36 verse number three it says that asav had numerous wives and one of the wives was basmatis basismale her name was basmas nashi however in verse number three says israel or is it because earlier in chapter number 28 it says that have married a woman by the name of mahalas rashid continues to go on to say here matinu i found my goddess mueller in the agoda in the madrid for the book of samuel that gimmel muslim him is there are three people whose sins are forgiven number one geshen a convert that converts if you convert you are forgiven for all your sins because a convert is like a newly born child so all the sins the convert had

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1. 0:00a famous story of a man who was married for 50 years and they asked him…
2. 3:06rabbinically we advise them not to however according to torah law they could so this is…
3. 6:09a convert that converts is like a newly born child in contrast to the other three…
4. 9:16is it that a person who gets married is forgiven is very simple because they do…
5. 12:20you're so drunk that you don't even know what you're saying anymore you have to be…
6. 15:27and these three levels really connect with the three previous opinions of marriage of why marriage…
7. 18:32regretting the past then i need to fast the entire day in other words i cannot…
8. 21:43now just like there is physical children biological children there's also spiritual children as the talmud…
9. 24:49the proposed baker the proposed man for some reason never showed up and she was beside…
10. 27:52i'm married for 10 years i have no children i wrote to them you told me…

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