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Marriage outside the rabbinate

שו”תCategory: Meta HalachaMarriage outside the rabbinate
asked 2 years ago

peace,
The rabbi supports marriage outside the rabbinate. What does the rabbi say about Rabbi Ben Zion Motzfi’s next argument that it is a severe prohibition because the woman is registered as single and is in fact the wife of a man?
https://www.doresh-tzion.co.il/QAShowAnswer.aspx?qaid=269309


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I’ve written about this here several times. I tell those who are getting married to go and register precisely because of this problem. It’s a halakhic problem but no less a legal one. It’s not for nothing that no legal system in the world regulates the matter of marriage. Of course, the Rabbinate uses this to maintain its monopoly and refuses to register couples who were not married through it. This must not be tolerated. One must marry outside the Rabbinate and register in one way or another. A couple I married tried to force the Rabbinate to register them and were unsuccessful (the judges, as usual with them, lied to the court with a resolute forehead and without batting an eyelid). They will be registered in another way (through marriage abroad or as known in the public, etc.). By the way, the one who creates this problem is the Chief Rabbinate, of course, because it is the reason why people do not want to get married through them and at the same time is unwilling to register those who did not get married through them, even if they did so through a demuy. In other words, the cause of the problem that Rabbi Motzfi is talking about is the Chief Rabbinate, of course, and everyone who supports it. They are causing Israel to have de facto bigamy (people living with other partners without getting divorced) and chaos in the field of marriage, with many who are married through a demuy not being registered. Therefore, it is ridiculous and evil in my opinion that they themselves are cynically using the problem they are creating as an argument in their favor and against marriages that are not through them. They have no protection except a knife. And breaking them is their purification.

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י.ד. replied 2 years ago

I don't understand the rabbi's argument. Since when is the fact that people don't want to get married through the rabbinate a reason not to get married through the rabbinate? If there is a religious reason to get married through the rabbinate, then the fact that it's not fun for us shouldn't change anything. And if I want to not eat matzah on Passover, does that allow me not to eat matzah on Passover? Or if I'm not happy with the government's behavior, am I allowed to not pay taxes? So what if they are a monopoly?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

What a strange question. Besides the fact that I don't see what sentence in my words you were referring to (I didn't find that I linked it with that), there is no point in getting married through the rabbinate. There is definitely an interest in getting married as a human being. Because the institution is corrupt and harmful, there is an interest in getting married as a human being, but not through them.
Beyond that, the discussion is whether the state should enforce marriage as a human being, and not whether it is appropriate to marry as a human being. These are two completely different questions. Here, even if there is a halakhic interest in doing something, it doesn't mean that I want the state to enforce it.

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