The Reason We Marry One Wife | P’ Ki Teitzei

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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.

hands together, "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again, no reply. He now moves right behind his wife, point point blank range. He puts his hands together, he says, "Honey, what's for dinner?" And she responds, "For the third time, chicken." Okay. Here we go. The concept of marriage, the institution of marriage is truly humorous. And the Torah begins to talk about this. In the portion of Ki Sisa, chapter 24, verse number one. It says, "Ki Yikach Ish Isha, if a man will take a wife, u'va Allah, and he will live with her." And then it goes on to say, "Sometimes it doesn't work out. However, the Hashem will say for crisis, if he wants to divorce, he can't simply say, 'Go out of here, get out of here.' But rather, he must write her a bill of divorce." This is the constitution and institution of marriage in the Torah. Number one, as the Rambam explains, there are two concepts here. There is betrothal and there is marriage. Before the giving of the Torah, there was only marriage. There was no concept of betrothal. In other words, if a man wanted to marry a woman, they met it in the street, said, "Come, let's go home to my house." And they were married. The innovation of Torah is that you just don't get married. There has to be a betrothal. In other words, what we call kiddushin. You meet the person, you like the person, you have a discussion with the person, and there's a mutual love between both parties. You decide together you want to get married. And then you have what we call kiddushin, which is betrothal.

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2. 2:34Then, later, after that, you have the concept of marriage. This is the idea of marriage…
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