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HAPTER FOUR - The Question of Marriage
A: BACKGROUND
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Introduction
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The Jewish Attitude to Marriage: The View from Bereishit
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Marriage – The Natural Thing to Do
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Judaism and Christianity – A Study in Opposites
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What Sort of a Marriage Do We Want? The Traditional Jewish View
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Judaism and the “L” Word – The Question of the Love Match
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The Move to Modernity – Love and Marriage in the Modern World
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Whatever Happened to the Arranged Marriage? Or: The Decline of the Shadchan
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The Marriage as Ceremony: Examining the Ritual
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The Aufruf
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The Mikveh
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The Wedding Day Fast
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The Ketubah
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The Baedecken
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The Walk to the Chuppah
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The Chuppah
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Kiddushin
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The Reading of the Ketubah
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Sheva Brachot
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The Breaking of the Glass
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Yichud
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The Se’udah
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The Week of the Sheva Brachot
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The Jewish Wedding – Summing up the Symbolism
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PRIMARY TEXTS
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G-d Creates Humans – Male and Female
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G-d’s Involvement in Marriage
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Humans – Between Family and Family
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Christians and Marriage
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G-d Arranges a Wedding
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G-d and Israel: The Marriage Metaphor
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Jewish Models of Marriage
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Love and Marriage – The Jewish Version
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People Build a Home – The Domestic Role of Marriage
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Modernising and Marriage
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The Age for Marriage
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The Marriage Age – Avoiding Sexual Temptation
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The Importance of Witnesses
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Introducing Ketubah
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Recalling the First Wedding
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The Kiddushin Question
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Marriage Obligations
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Marriage Blessings – The Sheva Brachot
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Marriage Levity
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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Choosing marriage?
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Model marriage.
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Love and marriage, go together like…
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What’s in a wedding.
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Counting your blessings.
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Glassbreaking!
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BIBLIOGRAPHY