C HAPTER FOUR - The Question of Marriage

A: BACKGROUND

1. Introduction
2. The Jewish Attitude to Marriage: The View from Bereishit
3. Marriage – The Natural Thing to Do
4. Judaism and Christianity – A Study in Opposites
5. What Sort of a Marriage Do We Want? The Traditional Jewish View
6. Judaism and the “L” Word – The Question of the Love Match
7. The Move to Modernity – Love and Marriage in the Modern World
8. Whatever Happened to the Arranged Marriage? Or: The Decline of the Shadchan
9. The Marriage as Ceremony: Examining the Ritual
   1. The Aufruf
   2. The Mikveh
   3. The Wedding Day Fast
   4. The Ketubah
   5. The Baedecken
   6. The Walk to the Chuppah
   7. The Chuppah
   8. Kiddushin
   9. The Reading of the Ketubah
   10. Sheva Brachot
   11. The Breaking of the Glass
   12. Yichud
   13. The Se’udah
   14. The Week of the Sheva Brachot
10. The Jewish Wedding – Summing up the Symbolism

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B. PRIMARY TEXTS

11. G-d Creates Humans – Male and Female
12. G-d’s Involvement in Marriage
13. Humans – Between Family and Family
14. Christians and Marriage
15. G-d Arranges a Wedding
16. G-d and Israel: The Marriage Metaphor
17. Jewish Models of Marriage
18. Love and Marriage – The Jewish Version
19. People Build a Home – The Domestic Role of Marriage
20. Modernising and Marriage
21. The Age for Marriage
22. The Marriage Age – Avoiding Sexual Temptation
23. The Importance of Witnesses
24. Introducing Ketubah
25. Recalling the First Wedding
26. The Kiddushin Question
27. Marriage Obligations
28. Marriage Blessings – The Sheva Brachot
29. Marriage Levity

C. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

30. Choosing marriage?
31. Model marriage.
32. Love and marriage, go together like…
33. What’s in a wedding.
34. Counting your blessings.
35. Glassbreaking!

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D. BIBLIOGRAPHY