Marriage to an unbelieving wife
What does the rabbi think about marriage to a secular, atheist woman?
1. From a halakhic point of view (of course, marital laws are upheld).
2. From the ethical perspective of the spirit of the Torah.
In particular, the question is asked when the man has not found a suitable religious woman, after much searching.
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There is no formal halakhic prohibition, but in practice it is very problematic. For example, what will happen to the children’s education?
Religious institutions.
Or let's say it's an infertile couple.
Just to isolate the question towards the lives of the parents themselves. Is this the way of Torah?
I don't know how to answer the "path of Torah". There is no prohibition, but it would generally be difficult to bring great fear of God out of such a house. There are also questions of loyalty and kosherness, and the like.
It should be prohibited because: ”And no abomination shall come into your house”
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Regarding a couple in which one of them changed their status (repented/questioned), would you recommend breaking up for the above reasons?
In the case of a woman who meets the requirements for publicly desecrating the Sabbath (or who is simply abhorrent to the entire Torah), wouldn't there be a prohibition due to the exclusions that are equivalent to exclusions from gentiles?
This is an interesting comment. I think that if it is a case of a wicked woman who knows what she is buying and turns her down, – ah”n. But simply put, there is no wickedness here, only a different faith. And someone who has a different faith is not wicked and there are no laws of estrangement from him. If it is a case of his wife, it seems that there is no place at all for the laws of estrangement, although when he marries her and knows that this is her nature, he introduces himself into rape and is guilty of it.
In the margins of my remarks, I will comment on what I once said: Is it forbidden for a person who violates Shabbat to drink his own wine? That is, if he drinks wine that he himself poured or opened, he will be sued for that as well. And it seems to me that it simply is not.
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