Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

Moshe

Have you ever written a Ketuba?



> At 11:07 PM 1/29/01 -0500, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
> > > If you write 'betulah' in a ketubah, the man signing it has now 
> > > agreed to give her the value of a 'virgin'.
> > The value of a woman not previously married
>
> Absolutly wrong.


Sources please

> > > While it is not asked, that does not change the law. (It should be 
> > > asked, or the person making the contract should be told so that he 
> > > can make the adjustments.)
> > The relevant legal status has to do with her marital status.
>
> Absolutly wrong.


Sources please

> > > What do you think a ketubah is? It is no more then a legal contract.
> > Yes, that is exactly what I have been describing - a legal 
> > contract, and your retort  has nothing to do with my description of 
> > the intentions of Ketuba
> > Moral judgements, whether a woman is chaste or not, is not the point.
>
> Why do we marry a betulah on Wednesday?


Same reason you marry them on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Motzei 
Shabbat, and Sunday.

"I" don't marry anyone - I just write the Ketubot, AFTER 
consultations with the Mesader Kedushin - hundreds of them, in the 
past 27 years.  Have you?

And, most of them, Betulot, and most of them on weekends.

Shoshanna



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